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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Wed May 16, 2012, 01:31 PM May 2012

Brain implant allows paralysed woman to control a robot with her thoughts

Brain implant allows paralysed woman to control a robot with her thoughts
The BrainGate implant can decode a patient's brain signals and instruct a robotic arm to reach and grasp objects
Ian Sample, science correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 16 May 2012 13.00 EDT

A woman who lost the use of her limbs after a devastating stroke nearly 15 years ago has taken a sip of coffee by guiding a robotic arm with her thoughts.

The 58-year-old used a brain implant to control the robot and bring a flask of the coffee to her lips, the first time she had picked up anything since she was paralysed and left unable to speak by a catastrophic brain stem stroke.

Doctors hailed the feat as the first demonstration of an implant that directly controls a reaching and gripping robotic arm by sensing and decoding the patient's brain signals.

The work is part of a US clinical trial of an experimental implant called BrainGate that doctors see as a first step towards devices that can bypass damage to the nervous system and allow paralysed people to regain control of their limbs or amputees to move prosthetics.

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/16/brain-implant-paralysed-woman-robot-thoughts

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Brain implant allows paralysed woman to control a robot with her thoughts (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2012 OP
I, for one, welcome our new cyborg overlords intaglio May 2012 #1
We must put an end to this scientific do-gooder Lucky Luciano May 2012 #2
Use to be women could only do this with men. Yavapai May 2012 #3
i think the movie surrogates... n/t ProdigalJunkMail May 2012 #4
Scientists ‘euphoric’ over promise of mind-controlled robotic arm... progressoid May 2012 #5

Lucky Luciano

(11,242 posts)
2. We must put an end to this scientific do-gooder
Wed May 16, 2012, 02:36 PM
May 2012

...work tinkering with god's will.

Stop science in the name of the lord!!!!!!!







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Yavapai

(825 posts)
3. Use to be women could only do this with men.
Wed May 16, 2012, 03:23 PM
May 2012

Guess this is "woman ver. 2.0"!

I bet in fifty years, people will look back to the year 2000 as we do today on medicine in 1900.

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