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MONKEYS USE ROBOTS TO FLING POO!!! GROSS!!! :) :)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the technology-continues-to-impress dept.

Bananatree3 writes "A monkey has learned to control a remote arm to fling its own poo at researchers. From the article: " Researchers at Duke University have taught a lab monkey to control the movement of a robotic arm, using only signals from its brain. The monkey's immediate utilization of this new skill was to shower a group of neurobiologists with feces, according to the report by lead researcher Miguel Nicolelis.""

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  1. Other Applications by shoemakc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well duh, what else would you use a robotic arm for?

    -Chris

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    1. Re:Other Applications by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 2, Funny

      I dunno about you, but I'd use one to scratch my ass.

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    2. Re:Other Applications by mobby_6kl · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I'd use it to give myself a stranger...

    3. Re:Other Applications by fbjon · · Score: 2, Funny
      Well duh, what else would you use a robotic arm for?
      Fling chairs.
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  2. That's great... by Paulo's+News · · Score: 2, Funny

    But was it one of those cuuuuute pink monkeys?

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  3. erotic by Tarmas · · Score: 5, Funny

    hands-free auto-erotic stimulation

    This might actually come in useful. At least until they fix Google Romance, because all it's giving me now is a bunch of 404 errors.

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  4. Move along. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    That is definitely not the droid I'm looking for.

  5. It doesn't get any better then this by shoemakc · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's saturday morning and i'm sitting here in a towel making comments about a story on flinging monkey poo. I'd like to think that 30 years from now I'll remember today as the day my life peaked.

    -Chris

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  6. I for one... by thomasdz · · Score: 2, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new poo-flinging robot monkeys

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  7. Re:well... by dr_dank · · Score: 3, Funny

    it is a monkey...isnt that all they do anyways?

    No, they masturbate too.

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  8. this is great. by atarione · · Score: 2, Funny

    I salute researchers working on this age old problem of how can a Paralyzed monkey still huck poo.

    personally i'm working on a robotic couch shredder for disabled cats

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  9. Re:well... by symbolic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't be so quick to judge - one did manage to get into the whitehouse....