Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants-Or Why To Buy More Tinfoil

[frank frankly]

SORRY TO SCARE EVERYBODY!!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17434-2003Oct12.html

Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants

By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 13, 2003; Page A01


Scientists in North Carolina have built a brain implant that lets monkeys control a robotic arm with their thoughts, marking the first time that mental intentions have been harnessed to move a mechanical object.

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In the new experiments, monkeys with wires running from their brains to a robotic arm were able to use their thoughts to make the arm perform tasks. But before long, the scientists said, they will upgrade the implants so the monkeys can transmit their mental commands to machines wirelessly.

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The surgeries were painstaking, taking about 10 hours, and ended with the pouring of a substance like dental cement over the area to substitute for the missing bits of skull.

The monkeys were unaffected by the surgery, Nicolelis said. But now they had tufts of wires protruding from their heads, which could be hooked up to other wires that ran through a computer and on to a large mechanical arm.

[frank frankly]

1. the article also says they will test on humans soon

:kick:

[Octafish]

3. It's already been perfected, if you call that living.

Geritol Monkeyskull (right) fondles Smirko.

[cosmicdot]

2. tufts of wires protruding from their heads

oh, nice