Monkey's thoughts propel robot, a step that may help humans

For the first time, brain signals have been used to make a robot walk.
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[dylankhoolim]

this is new?

This so called cutting edge news is nothing. We have monkeys who call themselves management sitting somewhere with a small machine call the 'blackberry'. These breed of monkeys with just a few keystrokes can make more sophisticated machines called the lowly employee do cartwheels, sing songs, write tomes of reports, innovate on demand,...

[Leria]

This is a huge breakthrough

This could give mobility of a sort back to people with spinal injuries or who have had brain damage.<br /><br />The breakthroughs in science lately are ASTOUNDING, and are one of the reasons why I don't believe in any 'higher power' or 'god'.... we humans are coming close to being 'gods' in our own right nowadays, doing things that would have marked us a 'divine' 1000 years ago or even less than that.