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by Kaitlin | February 27, 2007 at 10:18 am
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I don't know what these scientists are talking about, there are obviously so many "real-world applications" for this. I give it a year max before the US military recruits pigeons for Poop Missile Bombardments (PMBs) in Iraq.
Scientists from the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center at Shandong University of Science and Technology successfully used micro electrodes implanted in a pigeon's brain to make it fly left, right, up or down. The scientists used implants to stimulate different sections of the pigeon brain according to signals that scientists sent via a computer, which forced the pigeon to comply with the operator’s instructions.Su Xuecheng, chief scientist on the project, said that his trials are the first experiment conducted like this in the world -- the scientists previously tried something similar with lab mice two years ago. Improvements in device design and technology is one of the leading reasons this trial worked.
The Chinese team did not specify exactly how the remote-control pigeon would be utilized in real-world applications. Su has successfully carried out the same experiments on mice since 2005.
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at 10:36 on February 27th, 2007
Ah, but how would pigeons fare in a battle against DroneCopters?
at 10:54 on February 27th, 2007
This sounds like something out of Austin Powers. Remote control pigeons.