Scientists remotely control pigeons

Chinese succeed in implanting brain electrodes to influence flight


Updated: 6:53 a.m. CT Feb 27, 2007
BEIJING - Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to remotely control the bird's flight, state media said.

Xinhua News Agency said the scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center at Shandong University of Science and Technology in eastern China used the micro electrodes to command the bird to fly right or left, and up or down.

The implants stimulated different areas of the pigeon's brain according to electronic signals sent by the scientists via computer, mirroring natural signals generated by the brain, Xinhua quoted chief scientist Su Xuecheng as saying.

It was the first such successful experiment on a pigeon in the world, said Su, who conducted a similar successful experiment on mice in 2005.

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Whoa. That is very strange. I can't believe they can do stuff like that!

I better not touch this one...

I thought about you when I saw this article this morning Arty. I was in shock when I read it- never imagined something like this would be done.

I don't even understand why they would even try something like this. Very, very weird and sad.

my thoughts were of Arty as well when I read this in the morning....poor birds, and how SICK!
thats as much as I should say on this subject as well.

WTF....the bird has to be freaked ut. They have their own thought process yet someone is making them go another way....omg it's sickening. And how do they know that it isn't hurting the poor babies....oh wait, I bet they don't care

Awwww, come on Arty!!!!!!

J....I value my membership here on ParrotChatter....LOL
Trying to get rid of me HUH?....LOL
Nope.....am not responding to this issue.....

I agree with Arty on this one. Anybody remember remote control Dolphins? A.K.A. torpedo Dolphins.