Monkey Sees In U.S., Monkey Does In Japan
Writing by Conner Flynn on Wednesday, 28 of November , 2007 at 10:54 pm
Here’s a strange case of monkey see, monkey do, with a bionic twist. In February of 2005, Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh successfully created a robot arm and hand that could be controlled by a monkey’s thoughts. Now they’ve stretched that experiment across the globe. Researchers at Duke University implanted electrodes in the brains of two rhesus monkeys and studied the electrical impulses that drive their legs. Next they mapped signals to specific leg movements and used a monkey in North Carolina to transmit signals via the Internet to the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Kyoto, Japan, in order to control robot legs on their end.
They are hoping that this may eventually lead to mind-controlled robot legs for humans that are paralyzed. Robot legs of the future will be just a matter of routine thought.
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Comment by luis cartagena
Made Tuesday, 4 of December , 2007 at 3:13 pm
i would love to try to control a pair of legs, i would be more than glade to try an experiment. being paralyzed is not a good feeling, me trying to move my legs its like someone trying to turn invisible.