In the first successful experiment to meld bird and machine, a team of Chinese scientists created a partially remote controlled pigeon. The team was from the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center in China’s Shandong University of Science and Technology or, wait for it, SUCT and managed to create a abomination miracle of science that utilizes micro electrodes connected to the pigeon’s brain to control direction during flight via computer.

“The electronic signals resemble the signals generated by the brain which control body movement,” said chief scientist Su Xuecheng.

Xuecheng also believes the cy-birds will have practical uses in the future. While it’s scary to think about the implications for remote controlled birds such as destroying our nation’s breadcrumb supply, precise fecal bombing etc, it shouldn’t take much more than some exceptionally clean windows to staunch any possible threat.

[Via Wired Blogs]

1. plyr3005 says:
   March 1st, 2007 at 1:40 pm

   3 years later on nextlust:

   china reveals that it monitors the world via eBirds.

2. The Surfing Waffle says:
   March 2nd, 2007 at 5:25 pm

   Got to wonder where the money that went to this could have gone.

3. Bean says:
   March 2nd, 2007 at 11:26 pm

   hahahahahaha this is the funniest thing i have seen/heard EVAR!! Dang chineese and there uber smartness.