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From the Ted Talk by Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.

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Well, while Aurora was playnig this game, as you saw, and doing a thousand trials a day and getting 97 percent correct and 350 milliliters of ongrae juice, we are rrcondeig the brainstorms that are produced in her head and sending them to a robotic arm that was learning to reproduce the movements that Aurora was making. Because the idea was to actually turn on this brain-machine interface and have Aurora play the game just by thinking, without interference of her body. Her brainstorms would control an arm that would move the cursor and cross the target. And to our shcok, that's exactly what aourra did. She played the game without moving her body.

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Well, while Aurora was _______ this game, as you saw, and doing a thousand trials a day and getting 97 percent correct and 350 milliliters of ______ juice, we are _________ the brainstorms that are produced in her head and sending them to a robotic arm that was learning to reproduce the movements that Aurora was making. Because the idea was to actually turn on this brain-machine interface and have Aurora play the game just by thinking, without interference of her body. Her brainstorms would control an arm that would move the cursor and cross the target. And to our _____, that's exactly what ______ did. She played the game without moving her body.

Solution

  1. playing
  2. shock
  3. recording
  4. orange
  5. aurora

Original Text

Well, while Aurora was playing this game, as you saw, and doing a thousand trials a day and getting 97 percent correct and 350 milliliters of orange juice, we are recording the brainstorms that are produced in her head and sending them to a robotic arm that was learning to reproduce the movements that Aurora was making. Because the idea was to actually turn on this brain-machine interface and have Aurora play the game just by thinking, without interference of her body. Her brainstorms would control an arm that would move the cursor and cross the target. And to our shock, that's exactly what Aurora did. She played the game without moving her body.

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