A pigeon with a micro electrode implanted is seen in its head at a lab of the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center of east China's Shandong University of Science and Technology in Qingdao Monday, March 12, 2007. Scientists with the research center succeeded in remotely controlling the pigeons' flight by sending signals via computer after they implanted micro electrodes in the pigeons' brains.

A pigeon with a micro electrode implanted is seen in its head at a lab of the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center of east China's Shandong University of Science and Technology in Qingdao Monday, March 12, 2007. Scientists with the research center succeeded in remotely controlling the pigeons' flight by sending signals via computer after they implanted micro electrodes in the pigeons' brains.

(Xinhua News Agency March 16, 2007)