A computer navigation system based on a part of the brain called the hippocampus has been tested on an autonomous robotic car. By enabling the robot to take what its creators call "cognitive fingerprints" of its surroundings, the software allows the vehicle to explore and remember places in much the same way mammals do.
(Via KurzweilAI.net.)
My mercifully unpublished turn-of-the-millennium novel "Wave State" features taxis piloted by disembodied rodent brains. I toyed with the idea of some cars going rogue and ditching their transportation duties, driven by obsolete biological imperatives.
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