Monkeying Around

Japanese and U.S. researchers have announced that they have created a humanoid robot that acts according to the brain activity of a monkey. A laboratory in the western Japanese city of Kyoto unveiled a 62-inch humanoid, with a friendly-looking face and bulging black eyes, who walked using the brain signals transmitted via the internet from the cortical stems of a monkey walking on a treadmill at Duke University in North Carolina.

In a related story, Indian cricket fans (with little funding-- only enough for the cost of a few beers, apparently) have demonstrated that they too can act like monkeys, as in this picture from an India-Australia test match featuring Andy Symonds. The India-Australia cricket series remains on schedule despite the controversy over several incidents of poor sportsmanship.