Though robotic research is not spoken about a lot amongst common people, all the same lots of work is being done in this sector. Researchers in Japan and the US have shown that monkey brains can be utilized to control the walking function in robots. Researchers also claim that this technique might even help paralyzed people to walk again.
Scientists at the Duke University Medical Center have actually proved that the monkey can make a robot walk. A brain activity of a monkey called Idoya in US controlled a robot located in far-east, at Kyoto, Japan.
Idoya’s small brain weighing only 12-pound and measuring 32-inch possessed the brainpower to actually make a 90kg humanoid robot run via Internet.
This success was said to be outstanding as the robot and the monkey were located at a distance of thousands of miles and the two treadmills were obviously not connected.
Moreover, even Idoya was watching the video of the five feet robot imitating her actions and was amused by it, informed Miguel Nicolelis, lead researcher on the project.
“As he changed his speed of pattern, he was watching the robot change as well. She was pretty happy, yeah. Plus, she was getting fruits and Cheerios as a reward†said Nicolelis.
Scientists of the Duke University Medical Center are working with the Computational Brain Project of the Japan Science and Technology Agency.
