Sunday, April 27, 2008

Robo-Einstein

Thought Einstein was Dead? ...Well, think again.



On April 17, 1955, the great mathematician and physicist, Albert Einstein, was admitted to Princeton Hospital complaining of chest pains. He later died of an aortic aneurysm, and was cremated.

Little known is that immediately after death, his head was chopped off by Dr. Thomas Harvey, a pathologist at the hospital. Harvey did not have permission to remove the head, and was dismissed from the hospital after refusing to return the specimen.

For almost three decades, Harvey kept Einstein's brain and head in his home, constantly on the lookout for researchers willing to bring the professor back from the grave.


Einstein's Brain

In the early 1980s Harvey was contacted by Marian Diamond (neuroscientist) and Rod Baedeker (robotics engineer) who proposed to attach Einsteins head on top a new breed of robots designed by Honda. In 2004 they succeeded!






Here is never before seen video footage of this madness. What is our world coming to?

3 comments:

Ann Marie said...

For REAL!

Netti said...

That freaks me the shit out.

Anonymous said...

Where is the video....???