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A humanoid robot moves its legs at a laboratory in Seika town in Kyoto prefecture western Japan January 15. Japanese and US researchers have said they have created a humanoid robot that acts according to the brain activity of a monkey all the way acr ...
It may walk like a Japanese robot, but it's thinking like a monkey in the United States.
Japanese and US researchers said Wednesday they have created a humanoid robot that acts according to the brain activity of a monkey all the way across the Pacific.
The experiment was part of efforts to develop prosthetic limbs which can be mentally controlled by people with disabilities.
A laboratory in the western Japanese city of Kyoto unveiled a 155-centimetre (62-inch) tall humanoid, with a friendly-looking face including bulging black eyes, who walked via signals coming into its legs through wires.
"For the first time in the world, we were then able to make our humanoid robot in Japan walk in real-time in a similar manner as the monkey," it said.