What Robot-Driving Fish and Rats Tell Us About the Brain’s Ability to Adapt

[edwest4]

Neuroscientists are training fish and rats to drive robots.​

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/da...22-B630-EF7C886B406B?mod=trending_now_video_3

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

For god's sake, don't show this to the CEO of Uber.

 

[edwest4]

Not to worry. I'd never let a fish drive me anywhere.

 

[Foo Fighter]

After 3 seconds, said driver would forget there was a passenger anyway.

 

[UpForce]

Not to worry. I'd never let a fish drive me anywhere.

Great whites do drive people out of the water though.

Putting a "Douglas Adams twist" on this news one might suppose that fish were just biding their time, not bothering with evolving feet.

For god's sake, don't show this to the CEO of Uber.

Having had their margins under water for so long, it'd be sort of aspirational for them to launch "UberWater" I guess.

After 3 seconds, said driver would forget there was a passenger anyway.

Not entirely unlike being on some social media apps.

 

[FlightFish]

After 3 seconds, said driver would forget there was a passenger anyway.

Fish are smarter than you think

 

[publiusr]

I'm of two minds on this story
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-scientists-brain-circuit-gears.html

 

[Foo Fighter]

Fish are smarter than you think

They stay out of politics so cannot be too lame.

 

[publiusr]

More on how the brain learns motion.. through errors
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-hidden-brain-circuit-movement-errors.html

...too many--and
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-parkinson-symptoms-distinct-brain-circuits.html