Five labs are now pursuing neurorobotics, including University of California scientists who implanted thousands of artificial neurons and millions of synapses into a robot named CARL-I.

This "brain bot" learns through trial and error, developing simple memories and "personality", and even growing new brain cells which fire to remember and anticipate locations in a maze. Another British neuroboticist explains that "We're all modeling cortical structures to build whole brain models with the intention of seeing if higher functions like language and consciousness develop." But ultimately they're all asking the same question. Can we build a brain from the ground up, one neuron at a time?

This article comes from the new issue of the futurist magazine Humanity Plus, which also summarizes research in the opposite direction with an amazing list of already-existing interfaces between computers and the human brain

I call bullshit.

machines will be our legacy

this shit's exciting, no joke.