An Australian researcher is combining the brain of a rat and the eyes of a human to make an intelligent robot that can see where it is and where it needs to go. On a computer, at least.

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Boston University College of Arts & Sciences Professor of Psychology Michael Hasselmo has won a $1.5 million grant from the Department of Defense's Office of Naval ...

The next time you find yourself trapped under a pile of rubble, your savior might be a Roomba — souped-up with whiskers and a monkey brain.Such a robot was recently shown to outperform other ...

Moreover, it has a bionic spine, which gives the robot flexibility to move in a variety of ways, similar to a real rat. It can bend and twist, allowing for natural-looking movements.

In an astonishing blend of robotics and nature, SMEO—a robot rat designed by researchers in China and Germany — is fooling real rats into treating it like one of their own. What sets SMEO ...

Human brain tissue implanted into rats integrated and grew with host's brain The research also reports that not only does the human brain tissue survive, but it incorporates itself into the rat brain.

A CLEVER team of scientists have created a set of cyborg cockroaches with robot brains specially trained to save lives. The fascinating invention will see the insects deployed after natural disaste… ...

Using everything from robot swarms to robotic dogs to rat whiskers, he’s developing physically embodied, he’s developing physically embodied AI systems that — by interacting with their environments — ...

Scientists can assemble small sections of human brain tissue derived from stem cells in petri dishes, and have already done so with more than a dozen brain regions.