Gilgamesh on 27 November 2014
Are we on the brink of creating artificial life? Scientists digitise the brain of a WORM and place it inside a robot
- The OpenWorm global project is making a 'digital' worm
- Their project is recreating the neurons and cells in C. elegans
- It is the simplest organism we know of but has similarities to humans
- By making a digital worm the team hope to create artificial life
- They have implanted the digital 'mind' of the worm into a Lego machine
- In a video it acts and behaves just like the worm would in the real world
- Next year the team will allow people to download their own digital worm
