Tag: MONKEYS

We're just growing to accept that man is not the only creature on Earth who has developed the ability to use tools. First it was chimpanzees using stones to crack open fruit and nuts, and sticks to fish out termites. Then last year our closest simian relatives were observed making spears. Suddenly we weren't so special anymore. And now we're being forced to acknowledge that yet another creature, ...

A monkey named Arthur who wants a marshmallow could hold the answer to how paraplegics may soon be able to control robotic limbs and hands with their brains. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have implanted microelectrodes into the monkey's brain that measure signals and translate them into commands that move a robotic arm, in this case grabbing a marshmallow and ...

The scientists at Duke University must be stopped! Researchers have created an unholy alliance, bringing together the two biggest threats to human dominance of the planet Earth (outside ourselves) -- monkeys and robots. The researchers' motivations are innocent, however. The scientists put electrodes in the brains of two rhesus monkeys then stuck them on a tread mill. Wait -- this gets better. ...

Curious George prefers eating bananas, but playing with robots will do to pass the time. A team of scientists at Duke University took the world by surprise in 2003 when it successfully used monkeys to control robotic arms with only their brains. Don't be surprised, but the Duke team just one-upped itself. Implanting electrodes into the monkeys' brains, the researchers were able to train the ...