Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm To Improve Quality Of Life Of The Paralyzed



Brain Controlled, Robotic Arm
Brown University, working with the Department of Veteran Affairs, the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, have developed a robotic arm that allows paralyzed patients and patients with missing limbs grab objects in three-dimensional space through a computer-brain interface. The BrainGate neural interface system is a device currently being studied under an Investigational Device Exemption. However, BrainGate already has some impressive result, for example, one of the participants of the investigational study was able to serve herself coffee for the first time in fifteen years, since when she became paralyzed.
Via: inhabitat.com
BrainGate Neural Interface

More Posts:

Total Recall 2012 (Sci-Fi Movie)
Wind-Resistant Table
The Biggest Solar Sail Will Be Launched By NASA In 2014 (+VIDEO)
People With Head Traumas Can Have Up To 75 Percent Of Their Skull Replaced By A 3-D-Printed Imp...
Computer Memory That Can Store About One Terabyte Of Data On A Device The Size Of A Postage Sta...
Stretching When Zapped By An Electric Current, Muscle Chains Could Mobilize Microbots
Misfit Flash's Smart Button. Control your World.
Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cas9
Hoverboard ArcaBoard
Veeso: The First Face-Tracking Virtual Reality Headset