Creepy RatCar could drive mobility research

The cyborg armies of the future just got one step closer to total domination. Probably by taking a break from building giant fighting robots, scientists at the University of Tokyo have created the RatCar, a wheeled contraption controlled by a rat's brain. The researchers wanted to prove a simple idea right: that animals could use the parts of their brains that control limbs to control a vehicle. It looks like they can. The goal of the research was to see if it might eventually be feasible for paralyzed people to control wheelchairs using brain implants.