Cyber leader

摘要

Staring into the cold, lifeless eyes of a robot that looks like it's been sent back in time by a warlike race of intelligent machines is pretty unsettling. But how would you feel if that robot was controlled by a biological brain grown in a Petri dish instead of by a computer? That question is being raised not in a dystopian science-fiction film but in a lab at Reading University by one of the most prominent, controversial and divisive figures in robotics, Prof Kevin Warwick.