TED: Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a #robot with its thoughts. No, really. - Miguel Nicolelis (2012) http://t.co/aJJfIIOj
February 19, 2013
Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really. | Video on TED.com
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.