2013 EDU: TKR: A monkey controls a robot with its thoughts. Finally.

A monkey controls a robot with its thoughts. Finally.
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Published on Feb 18, 2013

Can we use our brains to directly control machines -- without requiring a body as the middleman? Miguel Nicolelis talks through an astonishing experiment, in which a clever monkey in the US learns to control a monkey avatar, and then a robot arm in Japan, purely with its thoughts. The research has big implications for quadriplegic people -- and maybe for all of us. (Filmed at TEDMED 2012.)

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