Robo-monkey uses brain power to feed itself

Read more: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14000

See how a monkey can control a robotic arm with its brainwaves, the first time a prosthetic limb has been made to perform a useful task.

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[strikerk]

Guys need to stop feeling for the monkey. Seriously. You benefit every day from the efforts of people who did things you may or may not have liked before you were born and in the future. This world has so much to thank for science like this. This kind of research will change how we interact with electronics, networks, communication. This monkey is doing more for humanity than most of US ever will. You shouldn't feel sorry, you should be jealous. He's far more valuable than you know.

[mindcontrolmonkey]

But proportionally, monkeys already have more upper body strength than humans. They'll be unstoppable with cyber-mega-robot arms. They'll be able to hurl poo with deadly force!

[slushpuddle11]

@strikerk in order to be successful in anything, you need to be able to see both sides of a story. all anyone else is saying is that the monkey doesn`t give a shit about the great things that this work is doing, because he doesn`t have the cognitive ability to understand it, same reason humans are able to take advantage of him in using him in experiments such as this one. so yeah, its perfectly okay to feel sorry for him AND be proud of the advances made because of him.

[Baboonaiih]

@Mrmtjones You call those jokes? I call that trolling. Even if I'm the one trolling you.... HA! Punk eat that! Those apples are darn tasty! But really, you call those jokes? When you post something online it is not like I can HEAR sarcasm or read your thoughts. You're just a little retarded, kid.

[Mrmtjones]

@Baboonaiih first of all, every click is not $0.10. second of all, why would I care if they did get $0.10? I love newscientist.

and THIRD I was the one just makin jokes and you had to go and write two whole freaking paragraphs. Humans are the most amazing things in the observable universe. isn't that obvious?

[Baboonaiih]

@Mrmtjones Your the one who needs to calm down. I have kept this argument peaceful up until now. You are the one who has shown signs of being not calm. I was trying to say that we were stupid in a sense that the so called human was not a title to be proud of, but that was 2 months ago and I was stranger than now. So thank you for proving my point of "not proud to be human" and you should also be thanked for supportnig this channel. Every-time you come back here to reply you give them $0.10....

[Mrmtjones]

@Baboonaiih hahaha calm the fuck down dude. save your anti-human bullshit for somewhere else and stop using it to get thumbs up you fucking whore

[Baboonaiih]

@Mrmtjones Wow you have no research skills. All you have to do is look for it and you'll discover that so called "animals" have specific parts of their territory where they make their "dirt" They do not "crap all over themselves" unless they are ill or scared. Maybe sometimes because most animals do not walk on two legs and live by instinct rather than conscious decisions and cannot avoid tracking some "dirt" onto their pelts/bodies. Also "animals" do not kill eachother in the way humans do. 50?

[Mrmtjones]

@Baboonaiih i'm pretty sure animals crap all over themselves and I can think of about 50 animals off the top of my head that kill each other.

[shellsuitstrangler]

Thumbs up if you are a monkey and you think a robot arm that feeds you marshmallows is a cool idea!

[ItsQuin]

@Baboonaiih Your not going to get many thumbs up, i don't think animals use youtube....

[Baboonaiih]

@0MGitZCHAZ :P Yep