Yahoo! News – Monkeys Can Move Robot Arms With Thoughts: “Monkeys with brain implants were trained to move a robot arm with their thoughts, a key advance by researchers who hope one day to allow paralyzed people to perform similar tasks. ”

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Humans have previously had implants to allow them to move cursors on a computer, etc, but this is a significant leap forward in complexity from that work (per the article). While there are decades of work to be done, it is becoming more and more realistic to believe that man may one day escape the fleshy storage units our brains ship in today…