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Monkey brain controls robot in Japan via thought, 2008

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A Brazilian neuroscientist at Duke wired the brain of a monkey in North Carolina to a robot in Japan in 2008, and made the monkey walk the robot 7,000 miles away just by thinking. Six years later, on live television, he did the same thing to a paralyzed Brazilian man at the https://t.co/wLdsK51Kb5

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