Zombies ain’t got nothin’ on the newest horror….
A monkey fitted with a hi-tech brain chip has learned to move a complex robotic arm using mind control.
The animal can operate the robot with such dexterity that it can reach out to grab, and turn a handle.
The mechanical arm has an arm, elbow, wrist and simple hand, which the monkey controls with the power of thought.
Sky News was given exclusive access to the laboratory at Pittsburgh University in the United States.
The research is progressing so rapidly that scientists hope to start trials on paralysed patients within a year.
Oh, sure, they say they’re doing it for folks with paralysis, but you know and I know that just as soon as they are able, GE is going to build a primate powered MechWarrior.
I wonder if SCOTUS will see the logic in rocket launchers as self-defense weaponry then?
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controlled “by” monkeys?
You know, of course, that the next step is to implant chips that prevent certain actions. Won’t that be a wonderful day?
I have wanted an Elemental suit for so very very long… and now I get to kill monkeys in it?
But are they face-eating monkeys? Does this combine two of the lexicon of modern horrors?
Sign-me up and shoot me into outer space!
And here I was scared by the mere thought of giving apes breach-loading rifles … silly me.
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