This has been done before at Nicolelis Lab at Duke. I did a rotation there during grad school: http://touchlab.mit.edu/news/documents/ScinetificAmerican_2002.

This has been done before at Nicolelis Lab at Duke. I did a rotation there during grad school: http://touchlab.mit.edu/news/documents/ScinetificAmerican_2002.pdf http://touchlab.mit.edu/news/documents/ScinetificAmerican_20... http://www.thinkartificial.org/machine-interfaces/monkey-brain-makes-robot-walk/ http://www.thinkartificial.org/machine-interfaces/monkey-bra... Also other US universities have been working on this stuff for 5-10 years.