Robo-Cerebellum: The Rat With A Robot Brain

Monday, October 3, 2011 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

We've all read about efforts to provide amputees with robotic limbs and we know that  deep brain stimulation can relieve a range of Parkinson and OCD symptoms - a Tel Aviv University researcher has combined those ideas and gone a step farther and successfully implanted a robotic cerebellum into the skull of a rodent with brain damage, restoring its capacity for movement. read more

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