{"id":341,"date":"2005-05-10T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/10\/robot-monkey-arms\/"},"modified":"2005-05-10T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T02:38:00","slug":"robot-monkey-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/05\/10\/robot-monkey-arms","title":{"rendered":"Robot Monkey Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/xastanford.org\/archives\/interesting-news-snippets\/\">you may recall<\/a>, sci\u00aden\u00adtists at Duke have fig\u00adured out a way to wire robot arms direct\u00adly into a mon\u00adkey\u2019s brain, and that the mon\u00adkey can then use the arm quite effec\u00adtive\u00adly.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukemednews.org\/news\/article.php?id=8662\">an update<\/a>: the mon\u00adkeys seem to view the arm as a part of their own body.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s wild.<\/p>\n<p>Expect some absolute\u00adly amaz\u00ading body-enhance\u00adment devices faster than you\u2019d think but slow\u00ader than you\u2019d hope.<\/p>\n<p>It made me think for a sec\u00adond: if I could direct\u00adly wire con\u00adtrol of any tech\u00adno\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal device into my brain what would I choose?<\/p>\n<p>Assum\u00ading I was lim\u00adit\u00aded to one, I guess I\u2019d pick a mul\u00adti\u00adpur\u00adpose wire\u00adless I\/O device. Like a blue\u00adtooth con\u00adtroller but with way bet\u00adter secu\u00adri\u00adty.<\/p>\n<p>That would rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may recall, sci\u00aden\u00adtists at Duke have fig\u00adured out a way to wire robot arms direct\u00adly into a mon\u00adkey\u2019s brain, and that the mon\u00adkey can then use the arm quite effec\u00adtive\u00adly. There\u2019s an update: the mon\u00adkeys seem to view the arm as a part of their own body. That\u2019s wild. Expect some absolute\u00adly amaz\u00ading \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/05\/10\/robot-monkey-arms\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cRobot Mon\u00adkey Arms\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-5v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}