Monkeys Navigate a Wheelchair With Their Thoughts Summary

Scientists from Duke Unifersity made a BMI that can read monkeys brain. With this, the monkey can move the wheelchair around with only thinking about it. Brain sends signals to this BMi machine. The BMI reads this thoughs and powers the motors of the machine to move.  Scientists have been doing demonstrations on primates using their brain signals since 1999 when two scientists did a similar study but on rats. Monkeys had a hard time trying to get the wheelchair to navigateas they wanted. As time went, monkeys were getting used to this. Monkey where implanted about 300 neurons, which they were only two monkeys.