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Robo-monkey uses brain power to feed itself

Read more: http://technology.newscient... 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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longtada (2 days ago) Show Hide
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too much aminal test, right?
krrrruptidsoless (1 week ago) Show Hide
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Enough animal testing. There was a guy that volunteered himself for this a couple of years ago. So why the monkey who didn't. Now you have just created a psychosis in this monkey. They will unplug him and he won't feed himself. He will look at others arms and think he can move them. Oh the humanity. Stop animal testing.
ZivkoC (6 days ago) Show Hide
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@krrrruptidsoless uhm, are you aware that this is an invasive test? that means they opened his skull and put microchips on his brain to read the signals. they hid it quite good in this video.
but this monkey is going nowhere aftrer this test
TonyBtheEG (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Incredible.
Phoxly (4 weeks ago) Show Hide
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I think its awesome, eventually we will have the little electro nodes in our brains on small plates and can control stuff wirelessly, by 2020 this shit could be possible...
WHATFUCKLOL (1 month ago) Show Hide
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or jou may get killed by robo monkey mutants. AND stuff like that.
annabell759 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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curse robots.
TheImposer (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Well, you think the ribbon cable is a bad idea, do you? How do you expect the signals to get transferred, hm? wirelessly?
littlegrabbiZZ9PZA (1 month ago) Show Hide
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He said no law requires sedation.

Even if this were actually true, nobody would do brain surgeries without sedation, since things in pain generally move around. Even if you tie them down, they still twitch. Brain surgery is perhaps the most precise surgery there is (your instruments need to be guided by a frame that's actually screwed to the patient's skull), so nobody would risk the monkey twitching and messing up the work that's been done so far.
anonymous549 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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so what? you saying we need to test on humans? i don't know about you but i have a life that i don't want cut short by experimental stuff. you go for it if you want but i'm willing to toss a couple lemmings in the way to get a ballpark on things.

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