Don't call people stupid when you're saying things like a chip is "capturing" information. You obviously know nothing about this, electronics, robotics or control technology. If the monkey was in any sort of pain it would'nt be happily sitting there eating. To be perfectly honest, even if a monkey is being hurt, I care much more about the extremely sophisticated robotic arm being developed as a result of it.
It's actually correct to say that the chip is capturing information. When you're talking about sophisticated electronics, metaphors and abstractions are a necessary evil, for someone pretending to know, you come off as extraordinarily ignorant.
Then you assume that I'm arguing against the use of live monkeys to test new technology, which I'm not, especially not in this case where it seems both extremely feasible, and extremely useful.
@AiBhai[ let's confine your dumb ass to a seat and strap you in. and put a microchip plant in your dipshit brain so we can control your movements. You will live your life in a cage, no fresh air, no exercise or sunshine or contact with another person ever again.you will shit and eat in the same place day after day..then they will chop your head off when they are done with you so they can study your dipshit brain..but hey- you WILL BE GETTING FED LIKE A KING! fucking moron
second of all(and this ones really obvious{dumbshit}), the monkey is not having its movements controlled /duhhh/ the entire point of this video is to show that the monkey is controlling the robotic arm while still retaining full control of its body.
third of all, when they do testing such as this, the animals get plenty of sunshine, exercise, and contact with others they also dont chop off their heads. you are clearly very stupid
@AiBhai have you ever even walked into a lab? i am part of an animal welfare coalition and clearly you are ignorant..Please inform yourself. the animal is a complete hostage and the neurology of these monkeys will be studied-that means killing them and examining the brain..it is so evil these labs are subterranean-(um that means no sunshine if you don't know) & they are kept in tiny stainless steel cages.you are a dipshit-this is about "behavioral control through manipulating neurofunction"
When a monkey can start communicating its subjective desires for self preservation, I may just shed a tear for this little #u@$er. And in regards to kiddish10's statement on what could be more cruel than this..? Well, hmm, maybe Mao, Stalin, and Hitler and their totalitarian monster of government they made. Normally, I'd insert a statement about a hippy d-bag living in a drug induced fantasy world; but, its that very fantasy world that led me to have interest in prosthetic technologies.
Just remind one of good old philanthropist Pavlov. And what is good for monkeys can't be bad for humans ey? Get your brain chip today and you can have intercourse and watch t-levi-sion the same time. Wow!
this is bullshit. this poor animal has the right to live like other animals. this motherfucking scientist should not enslave him and should let him go free! this is pure cruelty.
@sialuab i know man, but still... it doesn't seem right to abuse a monkey that way. what if you were born a monkey. then i would of course say.. oh yeah man! its a motherfucking monkey! and you lose your fucking arm in the process. cruelty does not fly! animals feel pain just like we do, and the monkey is struggling with a motherfucking robot arm to eat food! what else could be gross than this?
@sialuab yea watever man. they should start substituting monkey with a man. and thats where the game begins. then i'll surely appreciate this technology, u no... like create a real world terminator. it'll be fun haha.
@kiddish10 There are rules, specifically rules regarding pain, with respect to medical animal testing. It's important to have animal models for technology like this to make sure it's effective and safe for humans. It seems cruel, but you'd probably feel differently if you had Parkinson's, Huntington's or some other degenerative neurological disease.
@kiddish10 There are rules, specifically rules regarding pain, with respect to medical animal testing. It's important to have animal models for technology like this to make sure it's effective and safe for humans. It seems cruel, but you'd probably feel differently if you had Parkinson's, Huntington's or some other degenerative neurological disease.
@ProgectWander, what an absolute moronic remark, the monkeys are the trail, eventually humans will try using the same shit, for amputees or paras or quads, and the other 52 of you that gave his remarke a thumbs up, your a bunch of dumbasses too.........
@shadow55981 OK so usign science to help lives is wrong but believing in an invisible entity as a deity that watches you all the time like a perverted monkey is ok?
I gotta say they did a pretty good job in hiding the monkeys brain. I'm not curious I guess the poor monkey is fine..... Why the fuck did they hide it? Fuck u fuck u fuck fuck Disney disown did skid did diod sips diode
I am only 14 so i can't say this for fact, but i would guess they used some sort of device on a headband or hat type thing, like new video games that HUMANS use, which are controlled directly by brainwaves. Look it up if you want.
Fascinating amount of control there. Interesting to see that the monkey doesn't -quite- seem to see this arm as an extension of itself, eating of it as it might out of a handler's hand. Or it could be its somewhat uncomfortable predicament. But the fact that it -works- is a great sign of things to come. Look forward to human testing.
I can't see the monkey's head it seems to have been obfuscated by the metal machinery deliberately. I'll take your word for it though, but If its so harmless, maybe you should volunteer to replace it, you seem kind of keen and at least you have the choice.
@schicksta1 I'm sure it's not suffering, however it does look like a brain interface was implanted. Check out the vid at about 00:45, and you'll see the wiring on the side of Mr. Bobo's noggin.
Abuse? No. Research and development, and quite fascinating as well.
"they just placed things on his head without any incisions"
not true.
I guess you didn't watch the original documentary on 60 Minutes. They actually cut the top of that monkey's head off and implanted sensors directly into his brain.
@schicksta1 not to be insulting in any way but i think i read somewhere that they implanted a chip in the monkeys brain, not just a cap. but ur right to say that this technology could solve huge problems
Actually there was some surgery involved. The experiment was first conducted in a human, who had an electrode inserted into his brain, into the region of motor cortex controlling the hand/wrist. He was later able to control a cursor on a computer screen "with his mind". They did further testing in the monkey after the success with the human experiment, to see if it could be used to control a robot arm. Clearly it can be. SCIENCE IS COOL.
@arelistoughlove ...well if they did that and something failed, killing them, then there would be no on to perform the tests and we would lose many valuable minds and lose the possibility of this becoming a reality in the future...duh...
It's University of Pittsburgh, NOT Pittsburgh University!!! Yayy that's m school, my awesome school, my awesome research school ^_^ This stuff is pretty cool
They are not ashamed of them selves for this, you have to understand that most of these experiments have been done on humans. Check Unit 731 on youtube. Data was later traded between Japan and U.S.
How about we flag you for being a derp? The monkey is fine. In fact I bet he lives a better life than most youtubers. Not only does that monkey helping with new technology that could aid amputees and people born with birth defects, but he also gets to eat while playing with robotic arms. That's one seriously cool monkey.
@SupportTheDinos ...seriously?...HOW IS THIS INHUMANE??!!...you are an idiot for thinking this. 1: its just a monkey. 2: its not in pain, all they did was put it in a box and made it so it could not use its arm. The most amount of discomfort seems to be that he gets pissed that he cant use his arm, then realizes that he has another arm to use. 3: this technology will help better the lives. HUMAN LIVES i might add, of so many people. Id say a monkey or two is worth that.
Yeah its so inhuman that this monkey has to suffer through chowing down on bananas so that people/soldiers can get replacement limbs that they can control with their minds. Fuck you PETA
please people, realize that by stringing up dogs, they figured out some important concepts about anatomy and so forth, furthermore if you're baww'ing at the poor monkey just realize chimps eat monkeys, and every living organism eats another one, or competes for the same resources as another one (sieges in medieval times are for starving out the citizens often)
so stop bawwing at 2-3 monkeys
notice the real arms grabbing for the food too, I wonder if training could make that stop
notice how they block the view of the monkey's head, It is cuz they drill holes in his brain and put electrodes in...very sad when i found out how scientists really do this...then they usually kill the monkeys afterward...
I'm a bastard I dont care for animal rights and shit, but i gotta say that flatwire on the back of its head looks kinda cruel, especially cuz they're trying to block it from sight.
i know aputees often have phantom troubles, pains/itches on the limb they no longer have so they cant stratch it or mend it. i wonder it having a robotic arm would help such things, they could scratch the arm and the action may help the brain or they could develop sensors for the arm, that might also help with not accidentally knocking into stuff with them
@petevandebeat. You know what's animal abuse? Watching humans suffer all kinds of maladies when something can be done about it. Can you blame scientists and policy makers for choosing the welfare of humans over monkeys? This is a legitimate science with tangible benefits. The scientists aren't doing anything to hurt this monkey. They're studying it in a controlled environment.
You obviously havent seen footage of head injury "research" at the hands of vivisectors, baboons strapped to helmets and the student vivsectors in between smoking and dancing slam a 1,000kg hammer in to the side of the head. These same scum then seen laughing at the drooling, brain injured animal. Legitimate science? Its the thinking mans bloodsport, thats why all diseases are increasing. The use of animals is a crude science, fraudulent in fact and thats why diseases are not being cured.
You're right. I haven't seen those videos. I've never heard of those videos. If if such videos existed, what does that have to do with what's presented in this video? This is a legitimate form of scientific research and development on something that can make crippled lives better. Do yourself a favor. Type quadriplegic into the search bar and watch some videos about their lives, and tell me that the lack of
aesthetics of a monkey in a lab is too much for you still.
Are you referring to quadriplegics born with no limbs as a result of animal tested drugs like thalidomide? It was animal testing that caused an awful lot of quadriplegia that you appear to be so concerned about. Opren, an arthritis medication, killed 61 people. Over 3500 cases of severe reactions have been documented. Opren had been tested on monkeys and other animals without problems yet killed hundreds of people. . Animal experiments are killing humans and thats why I say its a crude science.
Crude science? You got a better fucking idea moron? And what about the quadriplegics that were in accidents smartass, like 99.9% of quadriplegic cases are?
Yes Ive got a better idea you thick as two short planks twat, how about you start doing some research on the amount of human beings killed and made ill as a result of animal experiments? Stop playing with the emotions of disabled people by giving them false hope that their ailments will be cured by experimenting on fish, donkeys and the like. Ask the group Disabled Against Animal Research and Exploitation werher or not animal experiments work and see what they,the disabled people themselves, say
False hope. Sure, that's exactly what science is. False hope. Not like it hasn't drastically increased life expectancy or anything. Not like we haven't improved prosthetics recently. Not like there aren't already working prototypes for humans using these technologies. Listen you stupid son of a bitch, the world is a big fucking place. I'm sure you can find me plenty of unfortunate people who have hit the unlucky lottery. But you CANNOT DENY the benefits science has provided using these methods.
I said the USE OF ANIMALS to cure human ailments is false hope -not science- you uneducated dreg. Good science is great- like the discovery of penicillin which has increased life expectancy precisely because it WASNT tested on animals. If it had of been it would have been rejected as unsafe for humans. Why? Because it kills every animal the vivisectors tested it on. Animal research gives vulnerable people false hope, yet all the while human diseases increase. Go figure!
Okay. We both went mean and I'll admit I started it, so I really don't see any reason to keep insulting you when your intentions are good and, if you wish, you can extend the same privilege to me. Anyways, pretty much ALL of the shit in medical science was tested on animals first. It's difficult to find any medicine that didn't have animal trials first (not saying you can't find any). A lot of the newer prosthetics that work off of neural activity were based on these tests with monkeys first.
Truce accepted :-) Our argument is purely a professional one over the most effective way to cure human disease and both views benefit from civility. To continue then - I agree that nearly all medical drugs were tested on animals first (they have to be by law) and thats precisely why so many have gone on to kill humans or cause terrible side effects.Of the 200,000 medicines in the world, the World Health Org say only 200 odd are useful. Were going wrong somewhere and I believe its the methodology
@bosiex are you fucking serious...how about you go find out how many more humans would die if we didnt do animal testing and went straight to human testing. Those people did not die BECAUSE of animal testing, they died because animal testing failed. It seems like you are trying to argue that if didnt experiment on animals, less people would die, which is complete, 100% total, absolute, utter, bullshit.
People who think this is animal cruelty (in suggesting so that it is not justified) can go start their own country. Call me cruel, as I will call you cruel for not caring about the millions of people this prospect will one day help and save. Humans #1. Human's pets #2. Wild beasts #3.
Yeah well, I'm not sure if your comment was meant to be a joke, but it's clearly not for use on monkeys but on humans. The reason we use monkeys is because their brain and bodies act in a very similar way to our own, if you do a bit of research you'll find that chips have also already been installed in people who are paralysed so that they can use computers. Interesting technology and a huge step forward with regards to prosthetics.
@ProjectWander They wouldn't put a monkey brain into a human, they put the chip on the human brain as it's very similar, they've already done it... Interestingly enough the brain functions in a 'similar' way to a computer, it's just a series of connections that either fire or don't, similar to binary.
@bizarrefruit you obviously missed the point of both PorojectWander's posts...he was kidding, but you come along "with reason" trying to argue with a troll.
I wasn't saying thank you mr buzz kill because the "knowledge and reason" bored me...I was merely pointing out that there is no point arguing with someone when their intentions are purely based on comedy...
@MaxxPowerFTW Fair points, but, the sign to show sarcasm or a joking manner in text is (!), I didn´t see that present and you can hardly blame me for assuming that someone on youtube could be stupid enough to believe that, like you said ´L2troll´ right, just look at the comments below.
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then do it on humans, fucking ignorant pussies. lets fuck with helpless animals. i hope all of you that are for this choke on a huge cock and fuckin die.
hey steve, it's probably not lethal because you have been choking on cock for a lifetime!!!
but back to the topic of the video; if you want to have it tested on humans why don't you offer yourself? if you're so brave you can call everyone else a pussy, i mean it's not like you're using that brain a whole lot
Aftr I read polyatheist comment I saw it the twisting motion the monkey doe with his right hand repeats everytime monkey is controling the arm it didn't have to be independent for amputise to use it
@NipponDanji2009 lol, this could be attached to a man missing an arm, his brain will completely control it as if it were his own arm.. The monkey is completely controling this arm with his brain alone! freaking incredible.. "The Brain that Changes Itself" Is where i first heard about this, check it out if you are interested in more..
hoax!!! i know some of you will thumb me down but it is fake..fake. fake,,,you think they did such a path breaking experiment and it didnt publish and was no where in news and was on youtube???? HA
this kind of technology has been on tv, and its animal rights activists that would complain. when it came to testing products on animals such as makeup, you didn't hear about that until well after it has already been in progress. its not fake, the brain is electronic and works by sending signals with specific frequencies. we can easily track down what lobe our motor skills come from, and our brain, in time, can adapt to whatever is removed, or added to it
yea if it was in the wild old snakey could of had its ass now that scientist are experimenting on it and it learn how to use i don't know some kinda robot power armor. The monkey can beat the shit out the snake so i think its good wot there doing.
i don't know what video are you watching... in this one you can't see the complete head, only the face of the monkey, and sometimes a wire. but you can't see how the wire is conected to his brain. it's filmed that way completely on purpose to make it less shocking.
@gmodfan11 The experiment was to see if by attaching electrodes to the part of it's brain that controls its right arm up to a robot, if the monkey would be able to move the robot arm with only its brain by thinking about what it would do with its right arm.
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this is fake! if the monkey was really controling the robotic arm its other arm woundn't be moving at all! i'v seen videos where they actually use only their mind to do stuff and shit! but this one is a FAKE!
@fuckedupsickfuckboy Actually your wrong, the monkey wants to use its left arm, if the monkey can use its left it won't try to move its right. The idea behind it is to move the RIGHT arm, so they restrain the left, that way it can only use the right arm. Why don't you do some research dude, you have google at your fingertips, stop sounding like an idiot... Educate yourself...
It seems in its brain the right hand is "connected" with the robotic arm. Whenever the monkey grabs the food, it turns the right hand clockwise shortly before the robotic "fingers" close. So it doesn't seem there to be a fifth "limb control center", but it's a reuse. Maybe with more training and time to let the brain "rewire" it can really be independent.
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anonimals111 1 week ago
why cant we see the top of the monkey's head? using animals in researches should be banned. they dont need any of these stuff. we should use humans.
szilardzsargo 2 weeks ago
It's actually research for people with disabilities.
drykitufk 2 months ago
more like the monkey uses his arm to control robotic arm.....
Striperguy777 2 months ago
DURR IT'S ABUSE CAUSE THE MONKEY NEVER ASKED FOR BIG ASS RIPPED ROBOT ARMS HURR
inb4 he never asked for this
but seriously, why couldn't they've taken me instead dat looks cool as hell ;_______;
LidlFisken 3 months ago
@LidlFisken
Lol I wouldn't mind being kidnapped to here and be forced to feed myself yummy with an awesome robotic arm
eatmeaters 3 months ago
how is this abuse?
monkey is enjoying its food!
ZeekyBoogyBoog 3 months ago
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i never asked for this..
wdeaver7 4 months ago
Now that's a badass meal... I mean, look at the monkey's face!
Frankozoid10 5 months ago
Guys lets make a fuckin robot arm
-ok
Dude lets make a monkey controll it!
-so he can eat marshmellows?
Yes
-nobel prize
DjDo5aGe 5 months ago 2
脳がむき出し？グロいから隠すってのもわからんじゃないが…それにしても凄いっていうか、ちょっと怖い
monoris2008 7 months ago
すげええええwwwww
zero123045607890 7 months ago
That monkey gonna get fat D:
PurpleBlades 7 months ago
arm! moooove fasteeer! me is hungryyy!
tabletka666 7 months ago
Cybernetic Monkey eats 40 pounds of Bananas
Film @11
PneubTube 8 months ago
@schicksta1 You are right about slaughterhouses and not only.
alfdhan 8 months ago
There's a cable running into their brains, where a small chip is capturing the information needed to control the arm.
It's not wireless, it's not painless and the chip will only last for a few months.
Clearly, this isn't as painless as some ignorant douchebags commenting on this video seems to claim.
Wouldn't go so far to call it inhumane, as the other camp likes to do, but clearly this teaches us that most people are stupid as fuck.
Munkatten 8 months ago
@Munkatten <----case in point
Oleander410 7 months ago
@Munkatten
Don't call people stupid when you're saying things like a chip is "capturing" information. You obviously know nothing about this, electronics, robotics or control technology. If the monkey was in any sort of pain it would'nt be happily sitting there eating. To be perfectly honest, even if a monkey is being hurt, I care much more about the extremely sophisticated robotic arm being developed as a result of it.
MarshFacev2 6 months ago
@MarshFacev2
Capture: to gain possession of.
It's actually correct to say that the chip is capturing information. When you're talking about sophisticated electronics, metaphors and abstractions are a necessary evil, for someone pretending to know, you come off as extraordinarily ignorant.
Then you assume that I'm arguing against the use of live monkeys to test new technology, which I'm not, especially not in this case where it seems both extremely feasible, and extremely useful.
Munkatten 6 months ago
@Munkatten and how would you know this? you show me some solid proof than ill be like 'aight respect' but you dont have any!
AiBhai 1 week ago
They are just a bit below our level of intellect, and yet they can use our technology.
beatfield 8 months ago
why do humans hate anything to do with nature
planetraptor420 9 months ago 2
monkey UUSE the FOORCE!
AiBhai 9 months ago
5 people think this is animal cruelty!
lol i mean comeon the monkeys gettin fed like a king and is using a ballin ass pimped out robotic arm to boot!
AiBhai 9 months ago 12
@AiBhai[ let's confine your dumb ass to a seat and strap you in. and put a microchip plant in your dipshit brain so we can control your movements. You will live your life in a cage, no fresh air, no exercise or sunshine or contact with another person ever again.you will shit and eat in the same place day after day..then they will chop your head off when they are done with you so they can study your dipshit brain..but hey- you WILL BE GETTING FED LIKE A KING! fucking moron
shantiz123 1 week ago
@shantiz123 aight punk
first of all, theres no chip IN his brain.
second of all(and this ones really obvious{dumbshit}), the monkey is not having its movements controlled /duhhh/ the entire point of this video is to show that the monkey is controlling the robotic arm while still retaining full control of its body.
third of all, when they do testing such as this, the animals get plenty of sunshine, exercise, and contact with others they also dont chop off their heads. you are clearly very stupid
AiBhai 1 week ago
@AiBhai have you ever even walked into a lab? i am part of an animal welfare coalition and clearly you are ignorant..Please inform yourself. the animal is a complete hostage and the neurology of these monkeys will be studied-that means killing them and examining the brain..it is so evil these labs are subterranean-(um that means no sunshine if you don't know) & they are kept in tiny stainless steel cages.you are a dipshit-this is about "behavioral control through manipulating neurofunction"
shantiz123 1 week ago
Hahahaha the moneys like "Fuck yes!"
WolfZeroBlade 9 months ago 6
I am a HUGE animal rights activist, along with many other things humans do...
HOWEVER.....I do believe the human comes before the animal in the case of amputees.
After all, soldiers who serve to protect everything everyone lives for deserve to live a better life than monkeys.
schicksta1 10 months ago
When a monkey can start communicating its subjective desires for self preservation, I may just shed a tear for this little #u@$er. And in regards to kiddish10's statement on what could be more cruel than this..? Well, hmm, maybe Mao, Stalin, and Hitler and their totalitarian monster of government they made. Normally, I'd insert a statement about a hippy d-bag living in a drug induced fantasy world; but, its that very fantasy world that led me to have interest in prosthetic technologies.
jherther86 10 months ago
Just remind one of good old philanthropist Pavlov. And what is good for monkeys can't be bad for humans ey? Get your brain chip today and you can have intercourse and watch t-levi-sion the same time. Wow!
KingTingRolloTong 11 months ago
this is bullshit. this poor animal has the right to live like other animals. this motherfucking scientist should not enslave him and should let him go free! this is pure cruelty.
kiddish10 1 year ago 2
@kiddish10 dude, its a fucking monkey
sialuab 1 year ago
@sialuab i know man, but still... it doesn't seem right to abuse a monkey that way. what if you were born a monkey. then i would of course say.. oh yeah man! its a motherfucking monkey! and you lose your fucking arm in the process. cruelty does not fly! animals feel pain just like we do, and the monkey is struggling with a motherfucking robot arm to eat food! what else could be gross than this?
kiddish10 1 year ago
@kiddish10 its for a good cause and if i were born a monkey i wouldn't mind having a robot arm instead of not having an arm at all.
sialuab 1 year ago
@sialuab yea watever man. they should start substituting monkey with a man. and thats where the game begins. then i'll surely appreciate this technology, u no... like create a real world terminator. it'll be fun haha.
kiddish10 1 year ago
@kiddish10 they did and are doing that already!
sialuab 1 year ago
@kiddish10 There are rules, specifically rules regarding pain, with respect to medical animal testing. It's important to have animal models for technology like this to make sure it's effective and safe for humans. It seems cruel, but you'd probably feel differently if you had Parkinson's, Huntington's or some other degenerative neurological disease.
ericrosoff 11 months ago
@ericrosoff thanks for clarifying.
kiddish10 11 months ago
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@kiddish10 There are rules, specifically rules regarding pain, with respect to medical animal testing. It's important to have animal models for technology like this to make sure it's effective and safe for humans. It seems cruel, but you'd probably feel differently if you had Parkinson's, Huntington's or some other degenerative neurological disease.
ericrosoff 11 months ago
this is the way of the future
gotubeogle 1 year ago
look at his right arm, it's like a mirror of what he is doing with the robotic hand. Strange adaptation, weird video to watch
franscitroen 1 year ago
I wonder how the sensors are attached to its head.
WoodCroftwoodcroft 1 year ago
sick !
segitary 1 year ago
@ProgectWander, what an absolute moronic remark, the monkeys are the trail, eventually humans will try using the same shit, for amputees or paras or quads, and the other 52 of you that gave his remarke a thumbs up, your a bunch of dumbasses too.........
katosteen 1 year ago
@katosteen I'm pretty sure he was joking.
goldendrago 1 year ago
I know god gave us power amongst all animals but I don't think surgically inserting a fucking cable into a monkeys head was part of his idea...
shadow55981 1 year ago
@shadow55981 OK so usign science to help lives is wrong but believing in an invisible entity as a deity that watches you all the time like a perverted monkey is ok?
ox141jf 1 year ago
I gotta say they did a pretty good job in hiding the monkeys brain. I'm not curious I guess the poor monkey is fine..... Why the fuck did they hide it? Fuck u fuck u fuck fuck Disney disown did skid did diod sips diode
G3TToSiCKURiTy 1 year ago
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It want to get out :(((( I can see it tryes to..
Jesperhkr 1 year ago
I wonder if that monkey can spank itself?
joesmoe71 1 year ago 3
cmon i want to see the wires coming out of its head
roofy2k 1 year ago
@roofy2k Me too. You can probably see all it's brain wrinkles.
sevenbegore 1 year ago
@Tholc501, and @AntiNWOMusic,
I am only 14 so i can't say this for fact, but i would guess they used some sort of device on a headband or hat type thing, like new video games that HUMANS use, which are controlled directly by brainwaves. Look it up if you want.
schicksta1 1 year ago
I dissagree with the the monkey being strapped up in some lab but shit, it was worth it.
SinisterElements 1 year ago
Fascinating amount of control there. Interesting to see that the monkey doesn't -quite- seem to see this arm as an extension of itself, eating of it as it might out of a handler's hand. Or it could be its somewhat uncomfortable predicament. But the fact that it -works- is a great sign of things to come. Look forward to human testing.
Dinictus 1 year ago
Hahaha this is so awesome
PSNDonutDude 1 year ago
@SupportTheDinos and @MrArtiny:
Why don't you look into animal slaughterhouses for animal abuse, not places where they are doing research that will benefit amputees.
And the monkey isn't even suffering they didnt hurt it in any way they just placed things on his head without any incisions
no animal abuse at all
schicksta1 1 year ago 24
@schicksta1
I can't see the monkey's head it seems to have been obfuscated by the metal machinery deliberately. I'll take your word for it though, but If its so harmless, maybe you should volunteer to replace it, you seem kind of keen and at least you have the choice.
AntiNWOMusic 1 year ago 2
@schicksta1 I'm sure it's not suffering, however it does look like a brain interface was implanted. Check out the vid at about 00:45, and you'll see the wiring on the side of Mr. Bobo's noggin.
Abuse? No. Research and development, and quite fascinating as well.
Tholc501 1 year ago
@schicksta1 um. they didnt just place it on his head. thats drilled into his brain.
WordArtphotos 1 year ago
@schicksta1
"they just placed things on his head without any incisions"
not true.
I guess you didn't watch the original documentary on 60 Minutes. They actually cut the top of that monkey's head off and implanted sensors directly into his brain.
tommytamasese 11 months ago 2
@schicksta1 And yea dickshit that just magically happened they didnt kill many others making this possible, right?
AaronCrossNZ 10 months ago
@schicksta1
but those marshmellow, there a choaking hazzard you know
chevron8locked 10 months ago
@schicksta1
"And the monkey isn't even suffering they didnt hurt it in any way they just placed things on his head without any incisions"
In it's head, with cables penetrating it's skull. What you said is pure bullshit.
Munkatten 8 months ago
@schicksta1 not to be insulting in any way but i think i read somewhere that they implanted a chip in the monkeys brain, not just a cap. but ur right to say that this technology could solve huge problems
foxface7 8 months ago
@schicksta1 actually they did make incisions. they put two brain implants into his head. do ur research
leehan92 5 months ago
Actually there was some surgery involved. The experiment was first conducted in a human, who had an electrode inserted into his brain, into the region of motor cortex controlling the hand/wrist. He was later able to control a cursor on a computer screen "with his mind". They did further testing in the monkey after the success with the human experiment, to see if it could be used to control a robot arm. Clearly it can be. SCIENCE IS COOL.
999VAMPIRELLA 5 months ago
I hate when this damn ppl experiment with animals!!! why they dont experiment with their ass!!!!!!!!
arelistoughlove 1 year ago
@arelistoughlove ...well if they did that and something failed, killing them, then there would be no on to perform the tests and we would lose many valuable minds and lose the possibility of this becoming a reality in the future...duh...
MaxxPowerFTW 10 months ago
It's University of Pittsburgh, NOT Pittsburgh University!!! Yayy that's m school, my awesome school, my awesome research school ^_^ This stuff is pretty cool
hgsnk333 1 year ago
50 or 100 yrs from now , human will have cybor arms and legs etc ,etc.. for amputee or handicapped pll.. knowledge is power.
JEphradu 1 year ago
They are not ashamed of them selves for this, you have to understand that most of these experiments have been done on humans. Check Unit 731 on youtube. Data was later traded between Japan and U.S.
peacockflyer 1 year ago
flag it for animal abuse
MrArtiny 1 year ago
@MrArtiny Idiot. Lives are saved by doing this. Besides, the monkey is living on easy street. Food every day, no predators etc..
ploothable 1 year ago
@MrArtiny
How about we flag you for being a derp? The monkey is fine. In fact I bet he lives a better life than most youtubers. Not only does that monkey helping with new technology that could aid amputees and people born with birth defects, but he also gets to eat while playing with robotic arms. That's one seriously cool monkey.
Xeil 1 year ago
This is so just inhumane and just GAWD DAYUM so sad!! i just want to cry.. this is so sad :(
SupportTheDinos 1 year ago
@SupportTheDinos ...seriously?...HOW IS THIS INHUMANE??!!...you are an idiot for thinking this. 1: its just a monkey. 2: its not in pain, all they did was put it in a box and made it so it could not use its arm. The most amount of discomfort seems to be that he gets pissed that he cant use his arm, then realizes that he has another arm to use. 3: this technology will help better the lives. HUMAN LIVES i might add, of so many people. Id say a monkey or two is worth that.
Dont be such a baby...
MaxxPowerFTW 10 months ago
@MaxxPowerFTW I say fuck the amputees I would've previously felt sorry for them but any amputee that benefits from this gets no sympathy from me
AaronCrossNZ 10 months ago
@AaronCrossNZ So you dont want people to benefit from things when animals are used as test subjects?
Have you ever had ANY sort of medication? If so, you are being quite hypocritical.
MaxxPowerFTW 10 months ago
Yeah its so inhuman that this monkey has to suffer through chowing down on bananas so that people/soldiers can get replacement limbs that they can control with their minds. Fuck you PETA
ExiledByForce 1 year ago 2
no matter what all you animal rights people say, this is legal and you cant to jack about it :D
giantblue 1 year ago
@giantblue you HORRIBLE jackass
SupportTheDinos 1 year ago
lol
2old4thatsuXx 1 year ago
Science!
mololol 1 year ago
@mololol Science again, I said science again.
Funkingout 1 year ago
Sick and wrong
AaronCrossNZ 1 year ago
@AaronCrossNZ dont be such a fucking baby...
MaxxPowerFTW 10 months ago
please people, realize that by stringing up dogs, they figured out some important concepts about anatomy and so forth, furthermore if you're baww'ing at the poor monkey just realize chimps eat monkeys, and every living organism eats another one, or competes for the same resources as another one (sieges in medieval times are for starving out the citizens often)
so stop bawwing at 2-3 monkeys
notice the real arms grabbing for the food too, I wonder if training could make that stop
noobler9 1 year ago
I published this video on the Dutch website WELSTIJL (11 may) Kind regards Sem Mallée
welstijlfilms 1 year ago
notice how they block the view of the monkey's head, It is cuz they drill holes in his brain and put electrodes in...very sad when i found out how scientists really do this...then they usually kill the monkeys afterward...
wingedsoul 1 year ago
@wingedsoul Hahahahahahahaha
ScottishDuckHunter 1 year ago
I'm a bastard I dont care for animal rights and shit, but i gotta say that flatwire on the back of its head looks kinda cruel, especially cuz they're trying to block it from sight.
elkikex 1 year ago 2
@elkikex
Doesn't seem to bother it, it's turn it's head around and doesn't seem to mind as long as it gets food.
Only if people had such good neurosurgeons...
HWGuyEG 1 year ago
I can't believe this video is two years old. How the hell could I have missed that?! Thank you xkcd for bringing this to my attention!
Selinja 1 year ago 2
i know aputees often have phantom troubles, pains/itches on the limb they no longer have so they cant stratch it or mend it. i wonder it having a robotic arm would help such things, they could scratch the arm and the action may help the brain or they could develop sensors for the arm, that might also help with not accidentally knocking into stuff with them
anyone know about this stuff?
KottonmouthSoldiers 1 year ago
@KottonmouthSoldiers Look up the term 'haptics'. They are working on incorporating sensors into prosthetics so you can 'feel' things too.
alk3v 1 year ago
@alk3v that is awesome!, thanks.
KottonmouthSoldiers 1 year ago
Today, a monkey uses a robotic arm to feed itself. Tomorrow, I'm fighting spider-man with four telescopic arms coming out of my back!
nunchucker 1 year ago 18
that is is fucking incredible
sirshartsalot 1 year ago
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fuck your brain vivisectors shit !!!
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rainbowsalads 1 year ago
this is animal abuse. you must not open the head for connecting the brain. frauenhofer institute deploy a cap witch you must just put on your head
petevandebeat 1 year ago
@petevandebeat. You know what's animal abuse? Watching humans suffer all kinds of maladies when something can be done about it. Can you blame scientists and policy makers for choosing the welfare of humans over monkeys? This is a legitimate science with tangible benefits. The scientists aren't doing anything to hurt this monkey. They're studying it in a controlled environment.
junkpast 1 year ago
You obviously havent seen footage of head injury "research" at the hands of vivisectors, baboons strapped to helmets and the student vivsectors in between smoking and dancing slam a 1,000kg hammer in to the side of the head. These same scum then seen laughing at the drooling, brain injured animal. Legitimate science? Its the thinking mans bloodsport, thats why all diseases are increasing. The use of animals is a crude science, fraudulent in fact and thats why diseases are not being cured.
bosiex 1 year ago
You're right. I haven't seen those videos. I've never heard of those videos. If if such videos existed, what does that have to do with what's presented in this video? This is a legitimate form of scientific research and development on something that can make crippled lives better. Do yourself a favor. Type quadriplegic into the search bar and watch some videos about their lives, and tell me that the lack of
aesthetics of a monkey in a lab is too much for you still.
junkpast 1 year ago
Are you referring to quadriplegics born with no limbs as a result of animal tested drugs like thalidomide? It was animal testing that caused an awful lot of quadriplegia that you appear to be so concerned about. Opren, an arthritis medication, killed 61 people. Over 3500 cases of severe reactions have been documented. Opren had been tested on monkeys and other animals without problems yet killed hundreds of people. . Animal experiments are killing humans and thats why I say its a crude science.
bosiex 1 year ago
Crude science? You got a better fucking idea moron? And what about the quadriplegics that were in accidents smartass, like 99.9% of quadriplegic cases are?
thomasford 1 year ago
Yes Ive got a better idea you thick as two short planks twat, how about you start doing some research on the amount of human beings killed and made ill as a result of animal experiments? Stop playing with the emotions of disabled people by giving them false hope that their ailments will be cured by experimenting on fish, donkeys and the like. Ask the group Disabled Against Animal Research and Exploitation werher or not animal experiments work and see what they,the disabled people themselves, say
bosiex 1 year ago
False hope. Sure, that's exactly what science is. False hope. Not like it hasn't drastically increased life expectancy or anything. Not like we haven't improved prosthetics recently. Not like there aren't already working prototypes for humans using these technologies. Listen you stupid son of a bitch, the world is a big fucking place. I'm sure you can find me plenty of unfortunate people who have hit the unlucky lottery. But you CANNOT DENY the benefits science has provided using these methods.
thomasford 1 year ago
I said the USE OF ANIMALS to cure human ailments is false hope -not science- you uneducated dreg. Good science is great- like the discovery of penicillin which has increased life expectancy precisely because it WASNT tested on animals. If it had of been it would have been rejected as unsafe for humans. Why? Because it kills every animal the vivisectors tested it on. Animal research gives vulnerable people false hope, yet all the while human diseases increase. Go figure!
bosiex 1 year ago
Okay. We both went mean and I'll admit I started it, so I really don't see any reason to keep insulting you when your intentions are good and, if you wish, you can extend the same privilege to me. Anyways, pretty much ALL of the shit in medical science was tested on animals first. It's difficult to find any medicine that didn't have animal trials first (not saying you can't find any). A lot of the newer prosthetics that work off of neural activity were based on these tests with monkeys first.
thomasford 1 year ago
Truce accepted :-) Our argument is purely a professional one over the most effective way to cure human disease and both views benefit from civility. To continue then - I agree that nearly all medical drugs were tested on animals first (they have to be by law) and thats precisely why so many have gone on to kill humans or cause terrible side effects.Of the 200,000 medicines in the world, the World Health Org say only 200 odd are useful. Were going wrong somewhere and I believe its the methodology
bosiex 1 year ago
@bosiex are you fucking serious...how about you go find out how many more humans would die if we didnt do animal testing and went straight to human testing. Those people did not die BECAUSE of animal testing, they died because animal testing failed. It seems like you are trying to argue that if didnt experiment on animals, less people would die, which is complete, 100% total, absolute, utter, bullshit.
MaxxPowerFTW 10 months ago
He seems pretty happy with all that food.
gavinhas1 2 years ago
So when can I pick up my Surrogate? I want one with all the features.
qkoexz 2 years ago
haha this was in that moive i thought it was fake when i saw the moive but wow its real
OoOComputerGeekOoO 1 year ago
very smart
bugras88 2 years ago
People who think this is animal cruelty (in suggesting so that it is not justified) can go start their own country. Call me cruel, as I will call you cruel for not caring about the millions of people this prospect will one day help and save. Humans #1. Human's pets #2. Wild beasts #3.
Virginityrocks 2 years ago
I agree it's not animal cruelty. But not based on the utility and benefit of the technology.
Imagine being a monkey with a robot arm... That shit would be fucking cool. I'm OK with making a monkey feel cool.
OfTheWillows 2 years ago
@OfTheWillows best comment ever xD
AirMan928 1 year ago
Why is there something in the way of it's head?
stevenc123 2 years ago
I think it is like with his arms, so that he wouldn't do anything other than what it was suppossed to!
articarts 2 years ago
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pickbo 1 year ago
@stevenc123 I thinks its because they don't want to show the wires that are attached to the part of its brain that controls its right arm..
pickbo 1 year ago
If monkeys cared about anything other than eating and mating, I would say this is cruel, but it honestly looks like its having a good time to me.
MrOpenended 2 years ago 2
MMmmm marshmallows.
malweebo 2 years ago
Yeah, but how can every amputee get a monkey? Its just not viable.
ProjectWander 2 years ago 55
@ProjectWander
Yeah well, I'm not sure if your comment was meant to be a joke, but it's clearly not for use on monkeys but on humans. The reason we use monkeys is because their brain and bodies act in a very similar way to our own, if you do a bit of research you'll find that chips have also already been installed in people who are paralysed so that they can use computers. Interesting technology and a huge step forward with regards to prosthetics.
bizarrefruit 1 year ago
@bizarrefruit yeah but if they put a monkey brain in a person, where does THEIR brain go? Again, can't be done.
ProjectWander 1 year ago
@ProjectWander They wouldn't put a monkey brain into a human, they put the chip on the human brain as it's very similar, they've already done it... Interestingly enough the brain functions in a 'similar' way to a computer, it's just a series of connections that either fire or don't, similar to binary.
bizarrefruit 1 year ago
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@bizarrefruit and thank you mr buzz kill again...
MaxxPowerFTW 10 months ago
@bizarrefruit thank you mr. buzz kill
MaxxPowerFTW 10 months ago
@MaxxPowerFTW Yeah, I'm sorry I bored you with all that knowledge and reason, allow me to write a reply that is more to your taste.
´dud, da munkey iz gunna tak ova da world'
bizarrefruit 10 months ago
@bizarrefruit you obviously missed the point of both PorojectWander's posts...he was kidding, but you come along "with reason" trying to argue with a troll.
I wasn't saying thank you mr buzz kill because the "knowledge and reason" bored me...I was merely pointing out that there is no point arguing with someone when their intentions are purely based on comedy...
l2troll
MaxxPowerFTW 10 months ago
@MaxxPowerFTW Fair points, but, the sign to show sarcasm or a joking manner in text is (!), I didn´t see that present and you can hardly blame me for assuming that someone on youtube could be stupid enough to believe that, like you said ´L2troll´ right, just look at the comments below.
bizarrefruit 10 months ago
i don't know if this thing they do on the monkey is good or bad....
TheSp21 2 years ago
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then do it on humans, fucking ignorant pussies. lets fuck with helpless animals. i hope all of you that are for this choke on a huge cock and fuckin die.
endisthebeginning 2 years ago
You didn't do very well in science while in high school, didn't you?
PeanutCupProductions 2 years ago
hey steve, it's probably not lethal because you have been choking on cock for a lifetime!!!
but back to the topic of the video; if you want to have it tested on humans why don't you offer yourself? if you're so brave you can call everyone else a pussy, i mean it's not like you're using that brain a whole lot
mazdaplz 2 years ago 3
give it a gun!
AirMan928 2 years ago 36
Aftr I read polyatheist comment I saw it the twisting motion the monkey doe with his right hand repeats everytime monkey is controling the arm it didn't have to be independent for amputise to use it
monsterbob1 2 years ago
cool MONKEYBOT
686guty 2 years ago
you people should start wondering why they are doing this experiment....
they are doing this because they wanna implant chips in our heads too!
NipponDanji2009 2 years ago
I hope they do...
Virginityrocks 2 years ago
I'm waiting for the day.
Link12th 2 years ago
They are doing it because it would be great for people who have lost their limbs to be able to have a robotic arm that worked just like a real one.
SupraJulie 2 years ago
@NipponDanji2009 lol, this could be attached to a man missing an arm, his brain will completely control it as if it were his own arm.. The monkey is completely controling this arm with his brain alone! freaking incredible.. "The Brain that Changes Itself" Is where i first heard about this, check it out if you are interested in more..
pickbo 1 year ago
hoax!!! i know some of you will thumb me down but it is fake..fake. fake,,,you think they did such a path breaking experiment and it didnt publish and was no where in news and was on youtube???? HA
mayanknawani 2 years ago
Well, this is published in the journal Nature ! Nothing more than that ! You don't see it on TV because they prefer to show crap.
Meel Velliste, Sagi Perel, M. Chance Spalding, Andrew S. Whitford and Andrew B. Schwartz,
Cortical control of a prosthetic arm for self-feeding,
Nature,doi:10.1038/nature06996; Received 14 November 2007; Accepted 4 April 2008 (2008)
GymNRythm 2 years ago 4
Thanks Gym...I got the point...
mayanknawani 2 years ago
this kind of technology has been on tv, and its animal rights activists that would complain. when it came to testing products on animals such as makeup, you didn't hear about that until well after it has already been in progress. its not fake, the brain is electronic and works by sending signals with specific frequencies. we can easily track down what lobe our motor skills come from, and our brain, in time, can adapt to whatever is removed, or added to it
schmidtbag 2 years ago
You need to pay attention to the news a lil more my young friend.
kny4eva 2 years ago
@mayanknawani Actually its a big breakthrough and it was published... Just because you can't find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist...
pickbo 1 year ago
why is every1 complaining its just a fucken monkey!
LasagnaIsGood 2 years ago
yea if it was in the wild old snakey could of had its ass now that scientist are experimenting on it and it learn how to use i don't know some kinda robot power armor. The monkey can beat the shit out the snake so i think its good wot there doing.
vide0viwer 2 years ago
there is no feeling in the brain people, the monkey is fine, just think of all of the gross diseases and things it would be exposed to in the wild.
aikiuke 2 years ago
As a potential beneficiary of this prosthetic arm technology i say fuck the god damn monkey.
snoreling 2 years ago
MURDER!!!!!!!!!!! And after your fun session you killed this poor primate! How lovely what you did to his head! You should be the next!!!
sophiadeluca 2 years ago
@sophiadeluca Should we use your head instead?? I vote monkey over any human having to die... Don't be so close minded..
pickbo 1 year ago
MURDER!!!!!!!!!! And after your fun session you killed this poor primate!!!!! How lovely what you did to his head!
sophiadeluca 2 years ago
@sophiadeluca ...*sigh*...you are an idiot...
MaxxPowerFTW 10 months ago
That's fantastic, and a year old too.
EpochOfReason 2 years ago
they're not showing the monkey's complete head... guess why? how disgusting!
DaiFriend 2 years ago 4
they ARE showing the monkey's head, genius.
KXMoon 2 years ago
i don't know what video are you watching... in this one you can't see the complete head, only the face of the monkey, and sometimes a wire. but you can't see how the wire is conected to his brain. it's filmed that way completely on purpose to make it less shocking.
DaiFriend 2 years ago
or it's filmed so that people can ACTUALLY SEE a monkey eating with a robotic arm.
The monkey turns its head around in instances and you can see a wire coming out of its ear.
KXMoon 2 years ago
Why?
gmodfan11 2 years ago
@gmodfan11 The experiment was to see if by attaching electrodes to the part of it's brain that controls its right arm up to a robot, if the monkey would be able to move the robot arm with only its brain by thinking about what it would do with its right arm.
pickbo 1 year ago
i bet the university is enjoying this (everything has a dark side)
piplup2009 2 years ago 2
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this is fake! if the monkey was really controling the robotic arm its other arm woundn't be moving at all! i'v seen videos where they actually use only their mind to do stuff and shit! but this one is a FAKE!
fuckedupsickfuckboy 2 years ago
@fuckedupsickfuckboy Actually your wrong, the monkey wants to use its left arm, if the monkey can use its left it won't try to move its right. The idea behind it is to move the RIGHT arm, so they restrain the left, that way it can only use the right arm. Why don't you do some research dude, you have google at your fingertips, stop sounding like an idiot... Educate yourself...
pickbo 1 year ago
It seems in its brain the right hand is "connected" with the robotic arm. Whenever the monkey grabs the food, it turns the right hand clockwise shortly before the robotic "fingers" close. So it doesn't seem there to be a fifth "limb control center", but it's a reuse. Maybe with more training and time to let the brain "rewire" it can really be independent.
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