From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Wed Apr 18 2001 - 18:17:59 MDT
You're right, Ziana.
Seems I could use some cyborg tech to improve my memory. τΏτ
I note, however (trying to save face), that the more recent reports tend to
add a few more details and embellishments.
Thanks for retrieving the earlier articles.
Cheers,
--J. R.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ziana Astralos" <ziana@extrotech.net>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: ROBO: First CYBORG lives...
> On Wed, 18 April 2001, ABlainey@aol.com wrote:
> > wasn't this done last year ??? I'm sure ive seen
> > this before.
>
> Sure was... the press release was on June 7, 2000. There's nothing different
about the experiment reported then and the one reported now; the Washington
Post article seems to be just a rehash of details combined from various
experiments, nothing especially recent.
>
> >From the April 16, 2001 article:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24800-2001Apr16.html
> "Using a microscope, Mussa-Ivaldi or his colleagues extract brain stems from
the squiggly, pencil-thin, 6-inch-long lamprey larvae under anesthetic. They
put the half-inch-long brain stem on a stand, connect electrodes to both sides
of it, and run wires to each side of the robot, an off-the-shelf miniature
from Switzerland called a Khepera."
>
> >From the first article:
> http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ns-hfh060700.html
> "To create the hybrid, the team extracted a lamprey's brainstem and part of
its spinal cord under total anaesthetic, and maintained it in an oxygenated
and refrigerated salt solution. .... The robot itself is a commercially
available module called a Khepera and couldn't look less like a lamprey."
>
> There's another article from last June, at
>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000111395221259&rtmo=VPVPFj4x&atmo=99999999&pί
g=/et/00/6/8/wrobo08.html
>
> And an article from November 27, 2000, when it went on display at a London
museum:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1043000/1043001.stm
> "Professor Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi, whose team developed the fish-machine
interface, said: "This is trespassing on nature but scientists do that all the
time. It's worth it if it leads to new knowledge and better prosthetic limbs."
"
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