The Pentagon’s evil research lab DARPA, may be losing a bunch of Congressional funding (but don’t worry, I’m sure the Pentagon can still fuel it with a bunch of drug money).

But the real reason I’m popping this in here is what it says about monkeys and robots, cause I had NO IDEA that shit had happened. That’s huge news:

“Other projects have been shelved in the Senate bill, as well. Funds from Darpa helped launch Duke University’s Center for Neuroengineering, where Craig Henriquez was one of a team of researchers developing techniques to control mechanical limbs using brain power alone.
In a widely cited paper in Nature, Henriquez’s colleagues showed how a monkey, implanted with a series of electrodes in its brain, could move a robotic arm — just by thinking about it.
The center received $5 million per year, as part of Darpa’s Brain Machine Interfaces push. Now, that money may be drying up.”