One step closer to my dreams!

Every year I hear something new in the news. Walking robots, cyber eyes, fake ears, artificial limbs connected to the brain by blue tooth, and every year I gain a little hope for the future. So, when I saw This Article I nearly had an awesomegasm.

That's right, the robot in the picture is driven not by sophisticated programming, but by a mouse's brain. How cool is that? It is rather primitive right now, basically it just drives around and if it gets near something it sends a signal to the brain. Nonetheless, this is an incredible opportunity to advance the cybernetic arts, and ultimately achieve the goal of putting my brain in a robot body.

My only real concern here is that the scientists seem to be focused on the less interesting aspects of the experiment, like how memories are formed, behaviors learned, and how memories manifest themselves. Now, while covering strictly brain related sectors like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's or how the brain communicates with the complex functions of the body is fine by me, as when I am merely a brain in a robot body a better understanding of such functions will help extend and enrich my life, I do not care how my memories are formed, just how I will use my robot body to drive humanity under my bootheal.

So, I figure by the time I am forty or fifty, and they have gone through a few iterations, done some human test subjects, and generally found out most of those inevitable annoying side effects, I'll be sporting a shiny new robot body.

An Adrian Barbeau Bot, with chainsaw Hands! BZZZZZZZZZZ

On a side note, Sealab 2021, pick up the DVDs (the first season anyways), you will not regret it. Unless, you know, you lack a sense of humor or something.