{"id":62420,"date":"2012-12-05T16:01:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/electronic-brain-hacks-are-turning-insects-into-robotic-helpers.php"},"modified":"2012-12-05T16:01:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T16:01:41","slug":"electronic-brain-hacks-are-turning-insects-into-robotic-helpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/electronic-brain-hacks-are-turning-insects-into-robotic-helpers.php","title":{"rendered":"Electronic brain hacks are turning insects into robotic helpers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#39;re a long way from directly controlling human minds remotely, but recent years have seen a string of breakthroughs in hacking the minds of insects. Insect brains are probably the simplest interesting brains, as insects can perform a range of tasks (flying, smelling, carrying, etc.) with brains that have numbers of neurons orders of magnitude less than those in complex vertebrates. A fruit fly ...<\/p>\n<p>Original post:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/r\/_ylt=A2KJ3CTib79QMWIAicf_wgt.\/SIG=12muo33tt\/EXP=1354752098\/**http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2012-12\/04\/insect-mind-control\" title=\"Electronic brain hacks are turning insects into robotic helpers\">Electronic brain hacks are turning insects into robotic helpers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#39;re a long way from directly controlling human minds remotely, but recent years have seen a string of breakthroughs in hacking the minds of insects. Insect brains are probably the simplest interesting brains, as insects can perform a range of tasks (flying, smelling, carrying, etc.) with brains that have numbers of neurons orders of magnitude less than those in complex vertebrates.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/electronic-brain-hacks-are-turning-insects-into-robotic-helpers.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhuman"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}