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To: StanX Long who wrote (63375)	5/2/2002 2:00:48 AM
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Great, even more uses for chips, :0) Pentagon creating remote-controlled rats By Peter Boylan Mercury News Washington Bureau Posted on Wed, May. 01, 2002 siliconvalley.com WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is developing live remote-controlled rats that eventually could be used to detect land mines and find people trapped in collapsed buildings. The rats have electrical probes wired into their brains, and they can turn left or right, climb and navigate mazes in response to commands issued by a researcher using a laptop computer, according to a report in today's issue of the scientific journal Nature. ``We can train and guide a rat to go over many terrains,'' physiologist John Chapin of the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, the experiment's principal researcher, said in a telephone interview. ``We'd like to train rats to go toward the smell of a person.'' Chapin said the original purpose of the research was to develop technology to allow paralyzed people to regain control of their arms. ``The remote-controlled rats are a spin-off,'' Chapin said.

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