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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: WMCoolmon on January 17, 2008, 09:36:21 pm

Title: Monkey can directly control a robot with its brain
Post by: WMCoolmon on January 17, 2008, 09:36:21 pm: Over a network from North Carolina to Japan, no less. (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15robo.html?ex=1201150800&en=b5ef42933a1e1201&ei=5070&emc=eta1')

Something for the more ambitious couch potatoes among us: Monkeys feed themselves using robotic arms (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1WBA9Xl3c)
Title: Re: Monkey can directly control a robot with its brain
Post by: Rictor on January 17, 2008, 09:52:45 pm: I for one welcome out poo-flinging metallic overlords.
Title: Re: Monkey can directly control a robot with its brain
Post by: Bobboau on January 17, 2008, 10:01:32 pm: so, I'm guessing the actual monkey has a billion cables running out of it's exposed brain, because they only show the CG one.
Title: Re: Monkey can directly control a robot with its brain
Post by: Polpolion on January 17, 2008, 10:24:22 pm: Quote from: Bobboau on January 17, 2008, 10:01:32 pm
so, I'm guessing the actual monkey has a billion cables running out of it's exposed brain, because they only show the CG one.

You have to admit, though, it has potential.
Title: Re: Monkey can directly control a robot with its brain
Post by: StarSlayer on January 17, 2008, 10:32:15 pm: Funny enough there was a news story i saw just recently showing that chimps have a much higher i guess you would call it sequence/memory skills then humans. They basically had to punch through a set of random number sequences on a touch screen that they were shown a brief glance of... i think this is an article on it:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/12/03/chimp.memory.ap/index.html

Though on the mind control part, imagine the possibilities for the disabled. If they could control artificial limbs with thier minds that would propably be a pretty large boon to them. Course the military would probably nab it for Firefox first ;)

(http://firefox.phpmagazine.net/upload/2007/05/firefox_movie_1982_by_clint_ea/firefox-movie.jpg)
Title: Re: Monkey can directly control a robot with its brain
Post by: Mefustae on January 17, 2008, 11:04:48 pm: I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine, just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake, and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my dreams, the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my consciousness: dark, rigid, cold, alien. Evolution is at work here, but just what is evolving remains to be seen.

Commissioner Pravin Lal
"Man and Machine"
Title: Re: Monkey can directly control a robot with its brain
Post by: karajorma on January 18, 2008, 04:18:01 am: My first though on reading the thread title was "Well "he knew every magic trick under the sun" so it's not that surprising" :D
Title: Re: Monkey can directly control a robot with its brain
Post by: Flipside on January 18, 2008, 04:23:03 am: Primates in Disguise!!
Title: Re: Monkey can directly control a robot with its brain
Post by: jdjtcagle on January 18, 2008, 09:51:08 am: This is incredible
Title: Re: Monkey can directly control a robot with its brain
Post by: Bobboau on January 18, 2008, 03:28:38 pm: Quote from: thesizzler on January 17, 2008, 10:24:22 pm
You have to admit, though, it has potential.

I was just speculating as to why they only showed the cg monkey. I don't really give a **** about animals. especially when they stand between humans and advancement.