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Monkey Think, Robot Do
moximus writes "Today's Wall Street Journal details an experiment conducted by Duke University that utilized microwires implanted in a monkey's brain to move a robot arm 600 miles away at MIT. Apparently, after months of recording associations between monkey arm movement and brain activity, the computer can now predict what motion the monkey will make about one second before its arms actually moves, allowing the robot arm to mimic the monkey in real time. Free 30 day trial required on Wall Street, but it's mentioned that the experiment will be described fully this Thursday in Nature Magazine"
...the robot arm promptly flung dung 600miles back to the researchers!