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Monkey Thoughts Control Robots - Cognitive Powers of Apes for Tech (VIDEO)
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Dig out your copy of Planet of the Apes or Netflix it, because monkeys are operating robots. A 12 pound monkey in North Carolina activated a 200 pound robot to walk on a treadmill using only brain activity. It was the first time this had occured. The Duke University lab team proved that monkeys could use their thoughts to control mechanical/electronic devices.
These experiments, Dr. Nicolelis said, are the first steps toward a brain machine interface that might permit paralyzed people to walk by directing devices with their thoughts. Electrodes in the person’s brain would send signals to a device worn on the hip, like a cell phone or pager, that would relay those signals to a pair of braces, a kind of external skeleton, worn on the legs
(nytimes)
Via: nytimes
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