{"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>, scientists at Duke have figured out a way to wire robot arms directly into a monkey\u2019s brain, and that the monkey can then use the arm quite effectively.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukemednews.org\/news\/article.php?id=8662\">an update<\/a>: the monkeys seem to view the arm as a part of their own&nbsp;body.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s wild.<\/p>\n<p>Expect some absolutely amazing body-enhancement devices faster than you\u2019d think but slower than you\u2019d&nbsp;hope.<\/p>\n<p>It made me think for a second: if I could directly wire control of any technological device into my brain what would I choose?<\/p>\n<p>Assuming I was limited to one, I guess I\u2019d pick a multipurpose wireless I\/O device. Like a bluetooth controller but with way better security.<\/p>\n<p>That would&nbsp;rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may recall, scientists at Duke have figured out a way to wire robot arms directly into a monkey\u2019s brain, and that the monkey can then use the arm quite effectively. There\u2019s an update: the monkeys seem to view the arm as a part of their own&nbsp;body. That\u2019s wild. Expect some absolutely amazing body-enhancement \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/05\/10\/robot-monkey-arms\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cRobot Monkey 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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"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}]}}