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October 14, 2003
Mercury, Apollo, and a Monkey with a Robotic Arm
The kittens are doing much better now. Poor Apollo was sick for a little over a week. I'm glad to see that he and Mercury are romping around together again. They are now about nine weeks old, and entirely adorable. Their favorite things to do include finding us when we're in the computer room, and meowing to be picked up and placed on our laps for a nap. Very precious.
I haven't had much of a chance to get out of the house besides going to work lately, what with the kittens having been sick and all. I did see Cory Doctorow's posting on BoingBoing, though, of a really cool development with a monkey and a robotic arm. This application should people who are paralyzed, for example. I'm not sure how much experimentation has been done with fine muscle control movements. I mean, can these robotic arms eventually play the piano? That would be way cool.
Posted by Kathy at October 14, 2003 02:38 PM