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Monkey's thoughts make robot walk from across the globe

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In a first-of-its-kind experiment, the brain activity of a monkey has been used to control the real-time walking patterns of a robot half way around the world, according to researchers at Duke University.

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: January 15, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Author: dukemedicine

Length: 01:59
Rating: 4.64
Views: 34736

Tags: activity  brain  cortex  Duke  feedback  Japan  Kyoto  monkey  motor  neurons  neuroscience  sensory  treadmill  University  

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JohnM3D (April 11, 2008 at 10:31 pm)
1) Why wasn't the actual monkey shown? Maybe not to shock people with the probes and wires connected to the animal. 2) The robot's feet don't touch the ground: this is still very mechanically crude and simplified. 3) The fact that the robot and the monkey are "half-way around the world" is absolutely bullshit -- for the effect of the experiment they could be in the same building -- or were they concerned of telepathy? I think they just wanted to use some marketing-catering-hype wording.
neverbeenfree (March 2, 2008 at 2:45 am)
You morons have forced me to respond. Have you ever heard of drunken sarcasm? Apparently not. Nonetheless, I am still soberly concerned about the damn monkey. And neither lardass or teabagger has clarified the situation.
teabagtime (February 28, 2008 at 2:06 pm)
Your ignorance is baffling. He's not Russian, judging by his name he is greek. And you obviously failed to understand the point of the experiment. It is now safe to turn off your computer.
lardhat (February 27, 2008 at 8:16 pm)
No. The idea is to make this devices operable by human brains. No monkeys would be involved then.
neverbeenfree (February 25, 2008 at 1:57 am)
What is left out here? Monkeys don't walk upright. How could a normal monkey assist in helping brain damaged humans walk? It makes no sense at all. Is the Russian scientist mad? Is he planning to implant trained monkey brains in human brains? Did he damage the monkey's brain in some insane belief that... I don't want to think about this anymore. I am going to throw up now.
Agent766 (February 22, 2008 at 12:41 pm)
That would be fun! :D
Respectab13 (February 11, 2008 at 1:22 am)
my words exactly
thettguy (February 8, 2008 at 1:51 pm)
Because PETA would get pissed and bomb the lab if we had a pic of monkey with electrodes coming out of his head
BoondockDeacon (February 3, 2008 at 4:49 am)
Like throwing poop at their enemies, that they are much more proficient at.
mylilgymsock1 (February 1, 2008 at 5:07 pm)
WTF


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