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Brain Interface Lets Monkeys Control Prosthetic Limbs
himicos was one of many readers to point out one recent success of scientists working to develop working brain-machine interfaces, writing "A team at the university of Pittsburgh has finally advanced a 2002 technology enough for use in prosthetic limbs, the targeted application all along. Training computer models to the firing patterns of the neurons in the parts of the brain that control motion, they are able to project the intentions of a monkey to a robotic arm, which follows the will of the animal.
The sad thing about the articles is that the beauty of the mathematics used to create and train the models is totally ignored." Reader phpmysqldev adds a link to coverage at the BBC, and writes "This of course brings significant hope to amputees and other other people with physical disabilities." (Note that this research has been going on for quite some time.)
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So ... I realize that this will ultimately be adapted to humans, but could it be adapted to something else?
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Specifically, I'm thinking of adapting a laser prosthetic arm, to be used by the poor, armless sharks
It's just an idea
Tie two birds together: although they have four wings, they cannot fly. (The blind man)
I've got 1,000 of these smelly bastards sitting in a room full of typewriters, and NOT ONE of them has produced the works of Shakespeare yet.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
if i were unfortunate enough to be an amputee, i would not like a monkey to be operating my prosthetic limbs.
That's nothing, I know tons of girls like Rogue, that can steal your powers by touching you.
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>>This of course brings significant hope to amputees
As long as they don't mind carrying a monkey to control their prosthetic arm...
Now the infinite number of monkeys will only need to *think* about Hamlet.
Don't forget to always mount a scratch monkey.
Why does a piece of flatbread want this research to stop?
Get back to me when they can use the robotic arm to fling poo.
He/she might be thinking "I wish this @#$@ing robot arm thing would quit stuffing those @%#$ed marshmallows in my mouth!"
Fair enough, but can't this research be directly applied to my one-man-cyborg-army-of-the-apocalypse idea, even though that's not the PR angle they're going for?
Once this technology advances to the stage where we can get genuine Darth Vader(tm) brand prosthetics after our various lightsaber mishaps, I'm just hoping that some entrepreneurial young Doctor will implant the control chips in perfectly healthy people for a fee, which you could then hook to the hardware of your choice. Of course, this may have to take place in a third world country where the FDA doesn't hold back novel ideas just because they aren't "medically necessary", or because it's an "abomination before God", or some such drivel.
It should be illegal to say that freedom of speech should be limited.
True. Crashing my X-wing could necessitate one.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
- I for one welcome our very hard mathematics doing overlords
- I for one welcome our new bionic monkey overlords
In Soviet Russia the same league isn't even in THEM!!!!Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
PITA is a bread?! I thought it was an acronym describing my wife. She sure does love the monkeys
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
You may be on to something. I've been trying to gain control of my third leg for years, but it seems to have a mind of its own.
Sure, go ahead and sign the contract.
Just remember that when all's said and done, you're the one with the army of cyborg supersoldiers.
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
Or misspelling Wookiee, you insensitive clod!