A new research made on monkeys that proves that a monkey can control the movement of another monkey using his mind.
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Actually, the research was made to find some way that paralyzed people could regain use of their limbs at Harvard Medical School in the US.
Scans from its brain were used to make the sedated ‘avatar’s’ hand move a joystick.
A neurosurgeon in Harvard, Ziv Williams, who was in research, said “The goal is to take people with brain stem or spinal cord paralysis and bypass the injury”.
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He added “The hope is ultimately to get completely natural movement, I think it’s theoretically possible, but it will require an exponential additional effort to get to that point”.
