SHOCKER! Monkey controls robot with brain!

[The Doctor]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/scienc...0&emc=eta1'

This blows my mind. Researchers in the US and Japan have created a link over the Internet between a monkey with electrodes implanted in her brain and a large bipedal robot, such that when the monkey thinks about walking, the robot starts walking itself. The researchers claim that by the end of the year, they will be able to demo the technology for humans with paralysed limbs, allowing them to regain the use of those limbs when augmented with a brain-controlled exoskeleton.

 

[Christopher]

Re: SHOCKER! Money controls robot with brain!

Money controls robot with brain?

Well, I'm not surprised. Money controls everything else.

Ohh, you mean monkey? Well, of course that means it's only a short hop to this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Robotmonster.jpg

 

[The Doctor]

Re: SHOCKER! Money controls robot with brain!

Damn typos anyhow.

 

[TerriO]

I can always fix it if you want.

You have but to ask.

 

[Timby]

I think he already fixed it himself.

 

[Christopher]

I still say the original title has truth to it. Without money, would the experiment even have been done?

 

[Flavius]

Pretty soon, I can have my monkey do the exercise for me. Sweet.

 

[Mallory]

I hope Jayson never sees this.

In all seriousness though, I hope the technology works out. It could help a lot of people.

 

[M'Sharak]

Mallory said:
I hope Jayson never sees this.

Do we know for a fact that he was in no way involved?

 

[Flavius]

Where is he? Was he on the team that made this happen?

 

[ed629]

How long before porn finds an application for this? You put on a helmet and control the Real Guy poking the girl on the PPV (PPF?) site?

 

[Candlelight]

In Japan, a robot just threw shit at a passerby.