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Monkey Controls Robotic Arm Using Brain-machine Interface

SingularityHub Staff
Aug 16, 2008
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In May the New York Times and many other outlets reported on the "most striking demonstration to date of brain-machine interface technology". From the article:

"The findings suggest that brain-controlled prosthetics, while not practical, are at least technically within reach.

In previous studies, researchers showed that humans who had been paralyzed for years could learn to control a cursor on a computer screen with their brain waves and that nonhuman primates could use their thoughts to move a mechanical arm, a robotic hand or a robot on a treadmill.

The new experiment goes a step further. In it, the monkeys’ brains seem to have adopted the mechanical appendage as their own, refining its movement as it interacted with real objects in real time. The monkeys had their own arms gently restrained while they learned to use the added one."

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