Researchers Using Rat-Robot Hybrid to Design Better Brain Machine Interfaces From: IEEE Automation - 10/04/2010 By: Tim Hornyak A strange creature, half robot, half rat, has been seen scuttling across a laboratory in Japan. It's RatCar, a rat-vehicle experiment that scientists hope could lead to improved mobility for people with disabilities. Read the entire article at: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/medical-robots/researchers-using-rat-robot-hybrid-to-design-better-brain-machine-interfaces Links: Mabuchi Suzuki Laboratory http://www.mels.ipc.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index-e.html RatCar: A Vehicular Neuro-Robotic Platform for a Rat with a Sustaining Structure of the Rat Body under the Vehicle https://embs.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/abstract.pl?ConfID=11&Number=2012 'Thought-reading' system controls wheelchair and synthesizes speech http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/thoughtreading_system_controls_1