No Joke -- In Vitro Grown Brains Used to Control Robots, World's Oldest Cave Painting Discovered & TDIH: The Erector Set

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In vitro brains are being used to control robots -- how scientists did it and where this bio-technology goes from here. The world’s oldest cave painting is discovered in Indonesia, dating back more than 51,000 years, and on This Day in History ... Step aside Futurama, scientist build robot that's controlled by a brain in a jar Recreating the Neanderthal Brain World’s oldest cave painting is at least 51,200 years old, scientists say Narrative cave art in Indonesia by 51,200 years ago Erector Set Patented – Today in History: July 8 - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project A.C. Gilbert | Lemelson (mit.edu) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.2	Home, Marcus Papp and Reggie Rizzou with you on today's episode, robots controlled by brains grown in vitro.
1:13.1	This is not a joke.
1:14.7	The world's oldest cave painting is discovered in Indonesia, and on this day in history, a
1:20.0	toy that would breed generations of engineers is officially patented.
1:25.3	That's coming up on Cool Stuff. Well, here's one of the crazier stories I've come across in recent memory,
1:31.8	courtesy of writer Alex Hughes and the BBC's Science Focus publication.
1:37.0	There have, of course, been plenty of bizarre robots designed throughout history,
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