This story has been a long time in the making; from the moment that the people at the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wired mice brains for remote guiding them, like some telecontrolled vehicles, we were headed towards something huge.
They haven't reached the point when they can start mass producing "Six Million Dollar Men", but monkeys have turned out to be pretty successful. The experiment was to initially have them follow a point on a screen with a joystick that allowed them to move a square on that same screen. But after a while, the robotic arm that "followed" the movements of the monkey started to move independently when the monkey realized it could move it without moving his own arm.
The project keeps going forward, and now we can see the robotic arm having quite precise movements. Curiously enough, we never get to see the head of the poor chimp, which must be quite messed up.
Link: Daily Tech.
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