Video review: YouTube - Monkey With Robot Arm
Perko discovered this in Robotics
•10 reviews since Feb 20, 2007
robotics, video, neuroscience
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Perko discovered 17 months ago- Cybernetic Monkies. For serious.
- Brutal-Wookie rated 5 months ago
- Now I want a robot arm...
- C0smoCuriosity rated 5 months ago
- Holy crap. Monkey in a box w/ a robot arm. _q
- paulmorphology rated 8 months ago
- gr8
- kroztron rated 9 months ago
- The singularity is upon us! Haha. Seriously though, these monkeys are conditioning their brains and/or a neural reader that CONTROLS a BIONIC arm, along with presumably neural feedback learning, to integrate seamlessly, to the extent that the bionic arm can perform the task of feeding. All this just from mental monkey magic!!!!! Seriously, that stuff really makes me crazy with futuristic thought. Imagine! You tell the robot in your house to begin dinner while you are walking out to the car just by reciting a password in your head, mental macros!
- ynegussie rated 10 months ago
- Very cool
- Alberichh rated 11 months ago
- Image: Multi-exposure photo, at quarksdaily.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/monkey_pic.gif , of what appears to be the arm in question and head of the monkey controlling it.
Contrary to another reviewer, it's not necessarily, from what the video says, the case that
- The monkey uses the microchip in his brain to control his robotic arm.
- When the implant is new, the monkey makes a motion aimed at the food, that is interrupted by the box, but observes the robot arm imitating that intended motion, and fitfully gives into weird little urges to move its own arm again, and observes the robot arm getting still closer to the goal. It may lose interest, the first many times, before getting to the steps of grasping, moving rhe robot arm back, and placing the food in its mouth.
- At some point, the experience of getting fed by the robot hand is bound to build some kind of reward-driven feedback loop, fine tuning what is in effect the monkey's control of the robot, so that using it gets faster -- and less effortful, perhaps in part by means of making motions with its own hand that resemble its normal feeding motions in some sense like whispering resembles speaking the same words.
- The monkey may even reach a point of losing track, at least while using the robot arm, of the distinction between its own arm and the robot arm -- well, losing it in some sense, since it's not obvious how much a monkey's sense of self is like mine. (Is your sense of self anything like mine? Well, probably, but you should get to work figuring out how to make me more confident about it.)
- Image: Multi-exposure photo, at quarksdaily.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/monkey_pic.gif , of what appears to be the arm in question and head of the monkey controlling it.
- zerix rated 11 months ago
- CYBERPUNK OR MAY BE borg??? hm.... http://youtube.com/watch?v=TK1WBA9Xl3c
- SaveFerris rated 17 months ago
- The monkey uses the microchip in his brain to control his robotic arm. How cute! :D
