Scientists Plan to Grow Neanderthal Brains and Install Them in Robots

I nominate this for Goofiest News Story of the Year. Maybe even the goofiest story ever. The Mirror reported this week that scientists at the University of California San Diego plan to grow Neanderthal brains in petri dishes and implant them into little “crablike” robots “to see how they learn” (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/frankenstein-cyborg-crabs-artificial-intelligence-researchers-are-putting-neanderthal-brains-into-robots/ar-AAzi2CO). Didn’t Peter Lorre already … Continue reading Scientists Plan to Grow Neanderthal Brains and Install Them in Robots