The unlikely human Frankenstein
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In a widely publicised experiment at Duke University, North Carolina, recently, monkeys given a brain implant learnt how to control a robotic arm with just their thoughts. Meanwhile, Chicago researchers at Northwestern University have fused the brain stem of an eel to a robot the size of a dollar coin, creating a crude cyborg, or cybernetic organism.
I saw Warwick speak at sxsw last year and his presentation was fascinating.