Self-programming worm brained lego

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Now a collective called the OpenWorm project has mapped all the connections between the worm’s 302 neurons and managed to simulate them in software, as Marissa Fessenden reports for the Smithsonian.

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Amazingly, without any instruction being programmed into the robot, the C. elegans brain upload controlled and move the Lego robot.

I know very little about this, but it is fascinating. Wouldn't this be the first step to the robotic uprising?

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