Monkey’s Thoughts Move Robot On Other Side of World
PaulSpoerry | March 26, 2008
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have used a monkey’s brain activity to control a robot on the other side of the globe.
In what researchers tout as a first-of-its-kind experiment, monkeys’ thoughts controlled the walking patterns of a robot in Japan.
“They can walk in complete synchronization,” said Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, who also is the Anne W. Deane Professor of Neuroscience at Duke. “The most stunning finding is that when we stopped the treadmill and the monkey ceased to move its legs, it was able to sustain the locomotion of the robot for a few minutes — just by thinking — using only the visual feedback of the robot in Japan.”
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