Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Japanese robot 'wired to monkey's brain'


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Wow this looks cool...

Japanese and US researchers have created a humanoid that responds to a brain of a monkey!
They have created in such a way that the prosthetic hand and legs cold be controlled by signals from brain. Here they have used a monkey's brain to control the movement of the limbs.

The researchers expressed that humanoid responded to the activity of cortex of monkey's brain when the humanoid was made to walk over a treadmill with support from chords attached to treadmill. This humanoid showed movements which resembled a monkey movement.

Thus this experiment will be a giant leap for helping people who are disabled. The prosthetic limbs which is mentally controlled will enable the patient to walk.

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