Psychic Robot Monkeys Will Be Here Soon!

The_FinchThe_Finch Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8498Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">OMG! They're here already!</div> <a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3186850.stm' target='_blank'>The monkey is using the robot arm!</a>

Very cool stuff with a lot of potential. The fact that the monkeys learned that they didn't need the joystick or that they didn't have to move their arms to manipulate the arm is impressive. This could allow doctors to bypass the difficulty of having to replace or regenerate nerve tissue and just implant a BMI, possibly with a synthetic limb.

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  • DreadDread Join Date: 2002-07-24 Member: 993Members
    I think it's been posted before.
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  • MelatoninMelatonin Babbler Join Date: 2003-03-15 Member: 14551Members, Constellation
    not just that...

    TV remotes, computer games, doors, .... :o cars?!

    all kinds of crazy things could come out of this brain wave reading technology.

    imagine it gets to the stage where it can read specific words that you think, add an ear piece and youv got a system for telepathic communication, now <i>thats</i> cool.
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  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Melatonin+Oct 17 2003, 04:32 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Melatonin @ Oct 17 2003, 04:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> not just that...

    TV remotes, computer games, doors, .... :o cars?!

    all kinds of crazy things could come out of this brain wave reading technology.

    imagine it gets to the stage where it can read specific words that you think, add an ear piece and youv got a system for telepathic communication, now <i>thats</i> cool. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    whoa... and thus the world takes another step near the cyberpunk future!
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  • TeflonTeflon Join Date: 2003-08-27 Member: 20289Members
    /me gets a vehicle control rig 3, two datajacks and a smartlink-2 Predator(Packing tungsten anti-vehicular rounds), and a concealed, quick-draw implanted leg holster to pop it out like Robocop.
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  • FlintFlint Join Date: 2003-10-11 Member: 21592Members
    Monkey robot experiments will take over the world AHH!!!oneoneoeneoeno!!11!1oneonene
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  • redeemed_darknessredeemed_darkness Join Date: 2003-01-21 Member: 12565Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Teflon+Oct 17 2003, 11:54 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Teflon @ Oct 17 2003, 11:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->/me gets a vehicle control rig 3, two datajacks and a smartlink-2 Predator(Packing tungsten anti-vehicular rounds), and a concealed, quick-draw implanted leg holster to pop it out like Robocop.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    you forget the level 3 wired reflexes <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
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