Ted Talks: Miguel Nicolelis: A Monkey That Controls a Robot with Its Thoughts. No, Really.
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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 quadraplegic people -- and maybe for all of us. (Filmed at TEDMED 2012.)
Feb 18, 2013 9:01 AM
