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Give That Monkey Brain A Robotic Arm!

Posted by timothy on from the was-it-bubbles'-brain? dept.

jeffsenter writes: "The NYTimes (free reg. req.) has a short story about the craziest science since the story on decoding a cat's vision. A monkey at Duke has had its brain wired up to control a robot. However, the robot is at MIT and the signal goes over the Internet. The research offers some hope to paralyzed people."

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  1. Remote admin body parts? by DanThe1Man · · Score: 5
    A monkey at Duke has had its brain wired up to control a robot. However, the robot is at MIT and the signal goes over the internet. The research offers some hope to paralysed people."

    Whats so importaint about the distance? Do they hope to allow amputies the ablity to control their removed arms thosands of miles away? Sounds like a scary movie idea to me.
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  2. The paralysed people are ecstatic! by TheDullBlade · · Score: 5

    Finally, instead of having their filthy trained monkeys get their grubby hands all over the food the eat and throwing their feces all over the place, they can get nice, hygenic trained monkey brains-in-jars with clean robotic arms to do their chores.

    In the immortal words of Abe Simpson, "Oh son! This monkey's gonna to change my life! ... Mmm, I can't wait to eat that monkey!"

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