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Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com.

 
Robotic fish powered by real muscles
7:57:31 pm mst / 22 February 2001
found by paul / filed in robotics / source New Scientist
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MIT scientist Hugh Herr and colleagues have built a robotic fish with a microprocessor "brain" powered by biological muscles and successfully taken it for a test swim.
What happens when a cyborg animal with an electronic brain and a biological body meets one with a biological brain and an electronic body?
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Why? by MysteriousStranger
1:25:29 pm mst / 23 February 2001 / # 1
For millions of years many entities have come and gone. Why can't we just leave it at that? Why are people so obsessed with living forever??