Researchers have found a way for thoughts transmitted by brain implants to control mechanical apparatus, they used this technology in lab monkeys where they restrained a monkey, linked an implant in the monkey's brain to a mechanical arm and put food in front of it within reach of the mechanical arm, and the monkey used it's (primitive) brain to control the arm and feed itself; heres is a video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wxIgdOlT2cY

One small step for man; One Giant leap to Cortex Command.

(Sorry if this has been posted before)

Yeah I've known about this for months so.

They've already moved onto prosthetics in humans operated with thought control, and methods of taking visual input and splicing it straight into the brain.

Cortex Command is not that far away, and not that unlikely.

Actually I thought they did ocular replacement for some blind dude a long time ago. I vaguely remember some discovery special from when I was like nine.

It's cool, but not as cool as brain controlled robots.
Just let me fetch the link again.
EDIT:

Reminds me of this thing I saw on TV, where someone put a chip in their wrist and then they had super-senses.

No really. The chip thingy senses vibrations in the air (sound duh) and tells you how close objects are through sound.

Basically it's Sonar. In the wrist. But it doesn't feel like vibrations in the wrist or anything, the chip is connected to the nerves.

Dunno why. It's got nothing to do with robotics.

QUESTIONEDIT: Does anyone know how long it took the monkey to work out that it could use the arm? If it worked it out right away, then that is impressive. (I don't feel right using an arm that a monkey couldn't work out how to use.

Hmm.

As cool as all of this is, I think DRL would be better off with ONE (1 MIND YOU 1) future topic.

You missed out MULTIPLE robots AND clones multi-tasking to a new level