Monkey uses brain to control prothetic arm

[temps105]

The monkey looks sad :(

[metalzface]

how are they measuring the monkey's brain activity? i dont see any invasive electrodes

[GtrMstr977]

@metalzface They surgically place a group of micro-scale electrodes in the brain. The microelectrodes intercept motor command signals generated in the brain, and then uses these signals to control a prosthetic device.

[anonimals111]

@metalzface bc they are covering his scalped head.. this is torture

[BunnaySango]

Why do they have to use monkeys for an experiment like this? Couldn't human volunteers do the same thing?

[Stikku]

There's a man using a remote control. There's nothing attached to the monkey.

[EthernalExhile]

All the PETA losers in here... if you don't want the fucking monkeys to get hurt then you should volunteer yourself to the lab stupid useless piece of shits

[lty2k84]

Hope they fuck up so badly that it will shut them down. Better yet when they reincarnate as monkeys that they get operated on and spend their entire life as guiney pigs.

[TheMoronism]

this technology is very useful

[MilanKragujevic]

just cut little cable and boom - no arm ... thats the problem

[BigBen81]

@MilanKragujevic just fix the cable and boom: arm again.

[star999nine]

@MilanKragujevic that's a problem? then we have to consider the entire organic body (both humans' and animals') as a huge problem. our entire bodies r designed that way: everything is connected (wired) to the central nervous system. the vast majority of robot technology and artificial intelligence is modeled after humans, which is why we use wires (like nerves) to control robotic arms. if a wire that can be cut is a problem, it's the same problem we already have of nerves that can be severed.

[hoshangkeswani]

A few days of practice and the monkey will be confused why his actual hand is up his ass when he wants to itch his nose...

[drag00re]

that arm is fake wtf

[TheYouComment]

So if u control the arm do u control his brain?xD

[frobie54]

How can anyone think this is sad for the monkey? He's getting free food, and he gets it by controlling a BADASS ROBOTIC ARM with his MIND.

[cowboydiver87]

@frobie54 True that!

[anonimals111]

@frobie54 you don't see the top of the monkey's head because is scalped with electrodes and a chip implant in his brain. He is deprived of food and water so at to gain access of the cortical area of the brain to force him to manipulate the robotic arm. humanity is a disgrace

[frobie54]

@anonimals111

Bull crap. The monkey's scalp is visible. Just look.

And besides, I've worn one of those head coverings before. They smear your hair with gel to get a better reading and hold the electrodes in place, and then the metal bits under the cloth rest lightly against your scalp. There is no chip implant necessary. It is not painful in the least. It might be a little gooey and slightly cold on top of your head, but that's the extent of the discomfort.

[Jetson08]

Why is the arm animated?

[cjgone2]

let it out :(((

[sokseb]

monkey is getting free food bro

[neoblast1]

@davidcarr666 what the hell dude. this is real its already at the FDA pending aproval for use with humans. study more, it seems you need it.

[amazonfox26]

COOL VIDEO, BUT.................... POOR MONKEY

[FastestSpermCell]

Hopefully 30 years from now he can jack me off.

[keerraam]

what a cruelty

I wish I'll see "scientists" from a movie in place of this poor animal

[Blahb27]

@keerraam Shall we bet something that if you get an accident, and loose both arms, all your objections to whatever type of research will suddenly disappear and you will use a prosthetic arm invented by research such as this?

[baic989]

why is the arm animated?

[posthumanfetus]

He looks like the saddest monkey who ever lived.

[MuonRay]

Is it just me, or does that arm look like a cgi graphic?-looks pretty fake to me.

[mate2000]

@MuonRay Yeah, it does look like CGI, the shading and the texture is like a video game... Especially the little motor with the colored ribbon wires... Strange, because this experiment was famous enough to make it into the opening of "Surrogates"... Or wait, was it made specially just for Surrogates?

[Kensai7KM]

How do you know it's a him? :p

[katosteen]

as fat as the monkeys is, he's getting plenty of treats

[yro1106]

The monkey seems pretty calm and zen.

Also, isnt this video about the technology?

[shroomypiro]

we should try this on our own race before we fuck up another one, fuck scientist, and fuck any other person who thinks that it is alright to control another animal. control our race and see how we handel it before any stupid fucks realy want to fuck up somthing elses life just because it cant speak

[flaviomast]

cool arm poor monkey

[katosteen]

all you fuckers that want to bitch about the" poor monkey" shut the fuck up, get your ass off your computer and take your ass down and be a volunteer, a little less mouth and more actions could save some of your furry friends.. otherwise shut the fuck up...................

[familiamacsan]

Oh...probres animais escravos !!! Porque não testam em humanos essas coisas pra humanos !!! Se um humano não suportaria tanto sofrimento porque espécies inocentes tem que passar por isso ??? Porque não podem reclamar seus direitos !!!

[gjustin79]

lol @ the dispenser sounds from TF2?

[wezil68s]

this is CG(computer generated)

[brittonnd07]

@wezil68s I agree it is clearly a 3D arm added afterwards.

[chicogotgreen]

@wezil68s Your a silly goose. This is widely recognized research simply documented and distributed through youtube so even the uninformed masses can get a clue of modern psychological research.

[chicogotgreen]

@wezil68s Yah, its a reenactment.

This is actually widely recognized research simply documented and distributed through youtube so even the uninformed masses can get a clue of modern psychological research.

[roofy2k]

how did you hook the money up? a big cranium spike like in the Matrix?

[mylvl200wizardpwnsjk]

dude what if you think about masturbating in a public place like a restaurant and the robot arm actually does it. or if you see a hot chick and you "accidentally" think about grabbing her ass...

[lodziklocPL]

@mylvl200wizardpwnsjk - commands to such a prostethic arm are executed exactly like you execute commands to your real arm. It's called neural signals. Controlling an artificial arm isn't any different than controlling your real arm - if you can stop yourself from masturbating in a public place or placing your hands on "hot chick's ass" with your real arm, then it will be similiarily possible to do that with that artificial arm.

It's not steered by simple imagination - it's steered by pulses.

[arelistoughlove]

Ass holes!!! use ur kids for these experiments!!

[chicogotgreen]

@arelistoughlove Go die.

Seriously. You care that much more for an animal than for your own race? A few monkeys experiencing the mild discomfort of being cooped up in a box with a wire going into their brain could help millions of paraplegics to walk and millions of amputees to have full use of a prosthetic limb. If that isnt something YOU think is worthy of relatively humane animal testing, you do not deserve breath anymore of the oxygen on this planet.

[familiamacsan]

@chicogotgreen Foda-se, você é um ser egoísta igual a muitos que acham que um animal indefeso tem que ser experimentado, sofrer e perder sua liberdade e etc. para ajudar a imundícia humana à se proliferar ainda mais e acabar de vez com o planeta. Nenhum homem é digno do sofrimento alheio, seja ele animal. Testa em você se você acha que a humanidade merece tanto!

[punchjudy]

They should at least make his arm out of something other than ugly, clinical plastic. Poor monkey, he looks trapped and unhappy.

[Dalzor27]

i dont get it for part of it the arm was cg

[suaveyobi]

Totally fake, the prostheses only moves back and forth along a single plane. The monkey isnt so much controlling the arm as it is turning it on, this is evident by the scientist's control of the arm with just a lever to move it and a button to make it grasp. After enough repetition, the computer hooked up to the monkey only interprets two signals. We cant even build robotic arms with enough biomimetic degrees of movements, we need artificial muscles and better understanding of neural activity

[chicogotgreen]

@suaveyobi Your.... smart but dumb. This video is merely a reenactment (as it is actually labeled during the video) of research that has been thoroughly documented and is widely recognized. The hand is opperated independtly of the arm itself. That is not an "on off" type of control, it has multiple inputs.

And no, the robotics to create a widely available electronic prosthesis that could accurately mimic the movement of an actual arm are not currently available. This is RESEARCH, not a solution

[osakanone]

From the movement of the arm, either they've missed something or the central-nervous system is doing a lot more in terms of movement-processing than we think it is.

[Spartan117A1]

TEST IT MORE EFFICIENTLY, USE HOMELESS PEOPLE !

[fredgt28]

wake me up when they have robotic HOOKERS!

[shaolincrest]

It even has that generic robot buzzing and whining....SCIENCE!...THE FUTURE!

[mvermeern]

robot monkeys.....here they come!

[perfpump]

this is so fake!

[KottonmouthSoldiers]

i knew undangerous wasnt a word, i use it so i'd have enough room in the comment.

god knows why i didnt choose "safe" instead.

[KottonmouthSoldiers]

go with other such things, excluding limbs; like say sticking a flir in an eye socket hooking that up to the brain somehow. humans would then see in heat vision. dont forget about a very important factor of this technology; the monkey kept its original arms and was able to mentally control a third.

[KottonmouthSoldiers]

@KottonmouthSoldiers the "user" keeps its eyes and hand/leg as well as havin six-thumbed hand, 8 tentacles + the ability to see heat. these are just random stuff i thought of, could as easily be a gland or a goddamn cellphone

[KottonmouthSoldiers]

so, i read from another upload of this on youtube, a comment that essentially stated that... the researchers first had the animal reach out with its own arm, recorded the thoughts used to perform this action then had the robot arm react in that fasion when the computer picked up these same thoughts. (the user used a lot more info + took multiple comments but thats essentially it.)

[KottonmouthSoldiers]

@KottonmouthSoldiers so my question is... could we, say, develop limbs (or other things) that have no similarities to limbs (organs/sensors) on the brains 'usual' body? could we give a man with no legs, eight robotic tentacles... or a man whos hand was blown off a hand with six opposable thumbs and no fingers? i always wondered if humanoid was all that effective, i think when we make the jump to stickin brains (then "human chips") in robots well have more efficient bodies

[corycountree]

why aren't the locked-in people with the implants doing this?

[KottonmouthSoldiers]

@corycountree good question, easy answer. bureacracy. what else COULD it have been? they know sticking a chip in a skull isnt all that dangerous. they also know this technology in itself isnt dangerous... but because they havent physically tried it, they dont know that doing both isnt dangerous.... so they did it to a monkey, with the educated guess that it wasnt dangerous, and lo and behold undanerous + undangerous = undangerous! magic.

[hochityuen]

I am skeptical about this footage - 1) where's the EEG connectors that are supposedly on the monkey's head; 2) the control is too accurate - anyone worked on EEG knows how difficult that could be; 3) timecode 0:30 the man (Spalding?) was using a remote to move the robotic arm, which means it is highly probable that he was doing all the control and not the money...

[thomasford]

Once again, well established science asshole. This footage wasn't made for YOUR untrained eye. It was documentation on their part. They aren't going to have a bunch of cheesy suction cups all over their head and a fucking eeg machine facing right into the camera.

"which means it is highly probable that he was doing all the control "

Highly probable? You've made this calculation based on what? You fuckers really need to stop thinking you know shit because you watched a movie one time.

[campgnartron]

@thomasford well said.

[PinkPunkyKat]

Maybe they've had surgery and the "connecter" is actualy in their brain?

[kaonashi007]

@PinkPunkyKat microelectrodes were implanted into the primary motor cortex

[PinkPunkyKat]

@kaonashi007 Why don't we see the monkey's face?

[Robopencil]

This is a "dramatic recreation". They didn't want to show real footage of a monkey with the top of it's skull cut off and wires poking out of its brain.

[BloodXSweatXGuitars]

i wouldnt doubt it.

[Crazee108]

that monkey looks adorable.

[tradotvis]

not that they cant do this but this video looks photo shopped. that arm looks like a graphic

[Crazee108]

@tradotvis I don't think you even know what photoshopped means... =/

[tradotvis]

lol its an XKCD reference. the arm looks like cg though especially when the monkey grabs the food with its mouth.

[thomasford]

You goddamn idiot. Even if it's fake

1. Why would they not just have a puppet arm instead of a CGI arm?

2. It's NOT called photoshop if it's a fucking video you moron. I want you dead. I want you to fucking choke to death on your own vomit you stupid sack of elephant shit.

[kieistheone]

you need to lighten up angry man

[LordNapalm]

now let one control Asimo.

Dr. Who will be there in like 10 seconds flat.

[Virginityrocks]

This would be the perfect way to control a mech warrior.

[airandfingers]

@Virginityrocks Agreed. I think the one thing most sci fi is least accurate about is how much our understanding of the brain will change in the coming years, just because it's so hard to imagine. How could anyone see this and think that hundreds of years from now we'll still be controlling machinery by hand? I can imagine technologies that could read and control minds, disrupt our neurons at a range and despite barriers, and even simulate a brain, so that our organic brains become obsolete...

[fields911]

@Virginityrocks this technology is the future of everything we know today, imagine fighting wars controlling tanks and jets with your mind from a base.

[MrCatbuttgum]

@Virginityrocks I don't want my bananas fabrics being attacked by mechs, do you?

[WRz101]

Any bets the military will get this technology first.

[aikiuke]

whoever sponsors this will get the technology first...

[TheCaptchaRaw]

CGI

[cappucinoserena]

well if it's not painful and for a short while only i don't tink the monkey will mind having tasty food dangled in front of it.. if it's realli scared i doubt it'll take the food too.. lets just hope it's not been inside that box for a whole day without exercise to its limbs..

[veddastv]

@cappucinoserena Keep on hoping. In order to be a test animal this monkey is kept indide the lab for his ENTIRE life, deprived of all his natutal instincts. There is no way animal experimentation can be healthy to the anmal being experimenteed.

George Guimarães

[cappucinoserena]

@veddastv oh sorry for my ignorance.. i thought they could at least have daily exercises since they're monkeys not fish..

that sad pitiful looking face the monkeys have naturally doesn't help the whole thing seem any better.

thanks for teaching me btw :) it prob doesnt know how to fear by now.

[firstnamenavarre]

@cappucinoserena Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC). These are boards populated by veterinarians and scientists, present at all research institutions, who oversee research protocols to insure that animals experience a minimum of pain over the course of their research lives. This includes regular exercise and play. Also, I don't understand how you can read an animal's expressions. It's an animal, not a human, so it is inappropriate to project your own emotions onto it.

[firstnamenavarre]

@cappucinoserena I work in animal research, with rats. Review boards make sure that animals get a full range of care and stimulation, meaning, a monkey is smarter than a rat, so to be happy and healthy it needs more mental stimulation, as well as exercise and a good diet. Standards of animal care and use have increased greatly over the last two decades. The idea is that happy and healthy animals give the best data. Like you said, if this monkey was unhappy or sick, it would not eat the food.

[MCPOSJ117films]

@cappucinoserena why do you think we had to make the arms in the first place? jk

[hwud1]

hey... can some1 tell me..

how is it 'linked' to monkey's brain??.. i dont see any wires or tubes etc.

[lardhat]

They probably hide them to make the experiment look better on video.

[Maranderk96]

the wires are connected to the brain stem and top of the spine. So my guess is there hidden inside that box its in.

[mw99mw]

@hwud1 rofll, you dont see a big box around the monkey? maybe thats covering it up.....?

[hwud1]

@mw99mw ..dude.. read my post again.. i said its not "linked" directly with monkey's 'brains' (the HEAD) !!..

the box is covering his body, but the connections should have been to his HEAD....ther' not !

[HotRedStilettos]

exactly, YOU would volunteer, but did anyone ask the monkey if he wanted to participate and live in a cage?

[ingej32]

Good question. I don't think he do.

[GuyGuysly]

No. Life is not fair. People and animals die. That doesn't have to happen once we start to understand how to produce synthetic means of support. It is going to happen now. It doesn't have to happen in the future.

[dannyboyfour]

The monkey didn't say he didn't want to either. The monkey is a bloody monkey. Besides, I don't think the monkey would mind a whole lot of tasty, easy food.

[antonyneal]

Yeh proberbly

[AvNotasian]

i hate to say this but living organisims are just machines the monkey is a less complex machine then a human therefore they may not see this as torture as they have been raised like this. even if they do its stilla machine and so is the surgeon

[koteban]

can monkey jack off with prothetic arms? I bet it wants to

[Indriaas]

It's !CRUEL! to use a animal for those experiments...

Look how the monkey sit there. He can't move his arms, legs and tail during the experiment. He STUCK! It's !BRUTAL!

Let's face it...

(Sorry for the bad langues, I'm dutch (Netherlands)

[luckystar171]

r u posting this on EVERY monkey testing videos cuz i just saw this on another vid. they monkey isnt getting hurt so stop complaining

[siamco]

Why do you think this is cruel? The monkey is not harmed in any way, and she can use her will to grab food and eat it. It's a game for her. I would volunteer to be in her place.

I think eating animal, riding horses, or even having leashes on dogs is much more cruel. Why don't you say anything about bull fighting?

[ilovejmsass]

what the hell are u a monkey farmer? stfu

[whitireia]

This is true I saw it on 60mins a documentary. They're already using this technology with humans simply amazing!

[RaphaElBarrelLa]

How fake ,you can clearly see the robot arm is computer made in certain parts.not real.

[flappsta6]

if it was fake, do u think the monkey would allow itself to be force-fed?

[RaphaElBarrelLa]

He isn't being force-fed it's the same thing as If i placed a juicy cookie in front of a dog's nose,surelly he wouldn't just keep looking at it.plus this experiment is possible and people did it already, its just that this one is fake you can see the computer made robotic arm.

[flappsta6]

yes i know. i was disproving the previos person's statement.

[mepatuhoo]

where are the cables? where is it connected to the monkey?