That article doesn't mention it, but another article I read at the time (or maybe it was for a followup experiment?) pointed out that while at first the monkeys were moving their own arm in tandem with the robotic arm, eventually they learned to control the robot arm independently of their own arm.
That was the most interesting part to me, because it raises the possibility of someday having something like a Dr. Octopus suit.
Very interesting. You wouldn't even need the thing you are manipulating to be attached to you. In the future you could go beyond Dr. Octopus, to pseudo-telekinesis, manipulating a mass of nanorobots.
Hasn't Professor Hawking been agitating for Intel and other companies to come up with one for his own use because he is losing control of the last of his muscles?
There are many groups working on non-invasive technologies that do the same using EEG. One commercial example, which I'm told is quite good: http://www.intendix.com
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 36.5 ms ] threadThat article doesn't mention it, but another article I read at the time (or maybe it was for a followup experiment?) pointed out that while at first the monkeys were moving their own arm in tandem with the robotic arm, eventually they learned to control the robot arm independently of their own arm.
That was the most interesting part to me, because it raises the possibility of someday having something like a Dr. Octopus suit.
Looks like he's closer to having it...