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Published online 16 November 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001116-9
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Monkey see, robot do
The power of thought can drive robotic movement and may help paralysed people. David Adam investigates.
The 'Firefox' aircraft created by author Craig Thomas in 1977 and stolen by Clint Eastwood in the film five years later was superfast, invisible to radar and fitted with thought-activated weapons. Fact has overtaken fiction since then -- fast, radar invisible planes are common -- but thought power has proved more difficult to harness, until now.
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