RoboRoach Surgery Instructions

If you want to begin learning about principles of neural engineering but have a limited budget, here are instructions on how to build your own RoboRoach and investigate microelectronics and neural interface design. To the NeuroRevolution!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• remote
• control
• cockroach
• HEXBug
• surgery

[sethiroph08]

so what's the purpose of this experiment?

[backyardbrains]

@sethiroph08

It's to teach about neural interfaces, microelectronics, and learning/adaptation. We've begun distributing them; most users are high school or college teachers who teach neural engineering.

[DrKuryakin]

What does PETA has to say about this ? :D

[wazaaaaaa1234]

im on the weird part of youtube again...

[theonesab]

@wazaaaaaa1234 All of youtube is the weird part of youtube

[peyote0]

@DrKuryakin who cares?

[peyote0]

@SoniXtheOnly you said 1. "People who do such things to animals, should be shoot instantly". 2. You seem to have great empathy for cockroaches, and I assume other animals.

How do you reconcile 1 and 2? Pretty simple question, but completely unsurprising you are not answering.

[SoniXtheOnly]

@peyote0 but this is absolute senseless. What should I say more?

[peyote0]

@SoniXtheOnly Brilliant! All animals must be saved. But shoot human animals like this guy! You're right, we really do have enough idiots. People incapable of critical thinking.

[peyote0]

@SoniXtheOnly Remarkable, you equate all animal life as equal. How about plants? Amoebas? Bacteria? Do you use soap? You know you slaughter millions of bacteria on your hands every time you do, right? Murderer!

[peyote0]

@SoniXtheOnly The irony of you using a computer and posting on the internet is delicious. Dam those pesky scientists, what have they ever done for me?

[peyote0]

@SoniXtheOnly of all the things the Nazi researchers did, you choose to highlight force feeding LSD to people as the worst of it? What about injecting people with petrol? Or limb amputations with no anaesthetic, then recording how long the subject took to die. Frankly if I was a Nazi victim getting fed some LSD would be preferable to the alternatives.

[ArenThomasian]

SO COOL

[neurocapable]

@neurocapable and if you're referring to the actual physiological mechanism as opposed to the psychological mechanism, it's that the cells are being depolarized so frequently that reciprocal inhibition and up/down protein regulations are occurring to maintain homeostasis.