Scientists and doctors alike are continuously looking for ways that'll improve the lives of paralyzed people. And it seems that the recent demonstration during the recent Neuroscience 2007 in San Diego, California is an indication that we are almost there.

In Neurosience, a team at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina put electrodes in the brains of two Rheses Macaques, more commonly known as Old World Monkeys, and analyzed the electrical signals that drive their legs.

The team then mapped those signals to certain leg movements and used them to control a pair of robot legs situated at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Kyoto, Japan.

The team added that they are hoping that these can be aid patients in the future to control their prosthetic legs via brain implants.