Monkeys and Robots

by kartooner on October 13, 2003

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. The tech­nol­ogy could some­day allow peo­ple with par­a­lyz­ing spinal (…)

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