When Animals Learn to Control Robots, You Know We're in Trouble

The warnings range from sarcastic to nervous to dead serious, but they all describe the same scenario: Robots become sentient, join forces and turn on us en masse. But we've ignored another possibility: Animals learn to control robots and decide it's their turn to rule the planet. The first signs of this coming threat are already starting to appear in laboratories around the world, where robots are being driven by birds, trained by moths and controlled by the minds of monkeys.