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  1. January 29, 2010, 06:02 AM #1
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    Default Monkey controlling a robotic arm with his thoughts.

    This is sort of old news, but if any of you guys haven't seen it, it's worth checking out.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIgdOlT2cY

    This video has more of an explanation:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-cpcoIJbOU
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    Default Re: Monkey controlling a robotic arm with his thoughts.

    That's going to be scary when it goes wireless.
    "Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement in the narrower sense is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result. Eloquence may set fire to reason." -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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  3. January 31, 2010, 02:33 PM #3
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    Default Re: Monkey controlling a robotic arm with his thoughts.

    The most obvious application is to treat paralysis injuries. Often times the nerves between the brain and the rest of the body are permanently damaged but the nerves below the break are still functional. This technology could be used to jump the gap.

    As far as wireless applications, it has been speculated that it could be used to control robots in situations were sending an actual human is unsafe or infeasible, but what would be the advantage? Maybe sensory feedback from the robot to the human brain I guess.
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    Default Re: Monkey controlling a robotic arm with his thoughts.

    Not a paranoid conspiracy post.

    How far of a stretch is it to abuse this technology? If you can interface thought to machine, then you can interface machine to thought.
    "Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement in the narrower sense is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result. Eloquence may set fire to reason." -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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  5. February 08, 2010, 09:03 AM #5
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    Default Re: Monkey controlling a robotic arm with his thoughts.

    So when are cyborg apes going to take over the world?
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  6. February 09, 2010, 01:13 PM #6
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    Default Re: Monkey controlling a robotic arm with his thoughts.

    So Skynet is being controlled by apes?



    NOOOOOOOO!!!! You finally, really did it. You MANIACS! You BLEW IT UP! Aw, damn you! GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
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