News: Monkey Think, Robot Do

January 15, 2008, 12:00 pm by Scientific American: Health

In a major step toward helping victims of paralysis walk again, researchers at Duke University Medical Center today announced that they had proved monkeys can use their brainpower to control the walking patterns of robots.

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