What a strange and wonderous thing we have here, and what potential for espionage.
Check it out here:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=291019
It doesn’t transform. 
I give up. What doesn’t transform?
Re: the OP - the part about mind-controlled prosthetics sounds wonderful.
On the other hand, one has to wonder, if one can get rats to do things by remote control, what could you get a human to do with a few wires in the right places?
Read the topic title again, Doubting Robert.
Yeah, rjung, but I bet with a little practice we can get them to whip up some energon cubes for us.
But hey, between rats/mice and birds this would make the most incredible spy network known to man.