Robot Monkey Arms

As you may recall, sci­en­tists at Duke have fig­ured out a way to wire robot arms direct­ly into a mon­key’s brain, and that the mon­key can then use the arm quite effec­tive­ly.

There’s an update: the mon­keys seem to view the arm as a part of their own body.

That’s wild.

Expect some absolute­ly amaz­ing body-enhance­ment devices faster than you’d think but slow­er than you’d hope.

It made me think for a sec­ond: if I could direct­ly wire con­trol of any tech­no­log­i­cal device into my brain what would I choose?

Assum­ing I was lim­it­ed to one, I guess I’d pick a mul­ti­pur­pose wire­less I/O device. Like a blue­tooth con­troller but with way bet­ter secu­ri­ty.

That would rock.

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