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Got wind of a story that monkeys can now control robotic arms with their thoughts alone.
No points if you can guess what a monkey would use a robotic arm for, right out of the box.
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Wry Mouth: File Under "Uh Oh."
Got wind of a story that monkeys can now control robotic arms with their thoughts alone.
No points if you can guess what a monkey would use a robotic arm for, right out of the box.
Have been reading this story in several newspapers today. (Yep..I went in for a sitty-doon coffee and read the papers. Felt veery self-indulgent.)I felt rather sorry for the lab monkeys with their arms pinned to their sides, willing the electrodes in their brains to similarly will the robotic arms to hit them in the vicinity of their mouths with something to eat. It only gets to the appropriate orifice a certain percentage of the time. Can imagine them having those unwelcome interfering saboteur thoughts, racing across, yelling, " Not the eye, not the eye, nose, chin...gak, what if it hits my eye...hit my eye", etc, and gumming up the works. If people requiring such limbs have similar unfettered unexpected thoughts, they might end up belting someone in the mouth, for a long forgotten irritation. However, they could truly enter the defence, which my daughter has raised, sans success: "I didn't do it, my hand did."
Mayhap I could superglue my arms behind my back, and get a robotic arm, programmed to make healthy eating choices, which would override my "cake, ya bass, cake" internalised imperatives.
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