And then there's this:
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Dr. Nicolelis has shown that this brain-machine interface can be done across continents. He places a monkey on a treadmill. A chip is positioned on the monkey’s brain, which is connected to the Internet. On the other side of the planet, in Kyoto, Japan, signals from the monkey are used to control a robot that can walk. By walking on the treadmill in North Carolina, the monkey controls a robot in Japan, which executes the same walking motion. Using only his brain sensors and the reward of a food pellet, Dr. Nicolelis has trained these monkeys to control a humanoid robot called CB-1 halfway around the world.
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I couldn't help but think that sounds like the plot to a bad sci-fi movie. It could be called "Attack of the Monkey Cyberbots."
But it's real, and the research could help paraplegics live semi-normal lives in the perhaps not too distant future.