Monkey controls a robot arm to feed itself via thought only

A rhesus monkey has a brain implant in it's motor cortex whose signals are monitored and decoded remotely by a computer. The decoded commands are then sent to a robotic arm which the monkey sees in front of itself and which it uses to feed itself simply by thinking about it. Also see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-cpcoIJbOU&NR

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