{"id":1016,"date":"2002-05-01T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-01T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2002-05-01T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-01T19:38:00","slug":"roboticised-rats-ratbots-to-become-newest-labour-saving-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/05\/01\/15\/38\/roboticised-rats-ratbots-to-become-newest-labour-saving-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Roboticised Rats &#8212; Ratbots To Become Newest Labour-Saving Trend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The old sci-fi dream of electrode-implanted, remote-controlled slaves inched a little closer today with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nsu\/020429\/020429-9.html\">announcement <\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Robot%20Rats\/Here%20come%20the%20Ratbots.html\">in Nature<\/a> of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/news\/news.jsp?id=ns99992237\">remote-contr<\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Robot%20Rats\/Robo-rat%20controlled%20by%20brain%20electrodes.html\">olled rat<\/a>. Right now it just understands simple motion and jump commands, but soon, very soon, perhaps there will be a handy &#8220;Fetch My Slippers&#8221; DogBot? And think of much easier it would be to motivate assembly-line workers!<\/p>\n<p>Earlier <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2002_03_03_WeekArchive.php#10419821\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old sci-fi dream of electrode-implanted, remote-controlled slaves inched a little closer today with the announcement in Nature of a remote-controlled rat. Right now it just understands simple motion and jump commands, but soon,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}