Brains Controlling Robots

Factual Questions
1

I just saw a video of a monkey wired up to control a robot arm with his brain.

here is the link: http://i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=22665
(It’s a couple minutes long, the end is what really blew me away)

My question is, has anything else like this been done before? I know a lot of crazy stuff has been done with the brain, but this seems to top them all, and it seems that with this possible, total thought recording and “mind reading” seems definitely possible and in the frighteningly not so distant future.

2

You might be interested in the website of Cyberkinetics, a company that is working on several “thought-into-action” projects.

3

Here’s an article about a woman that received a bionic arm controlled by her own nerves.