BrainGate, a program that pools research from several universities, is moving ever closer to giving paralyzed patients use of their limbs by using technology developed to drive computerized prosthetics to drive the paralyzed limbs. The team is developing a system in which a patient's mental signal to move an arm is recorded, filtered through a computer and sent as a command to an electric stimulation device that activates the patient's muscles.
Wireless Brain Implant Aims To Give Paralyzed Power Over Their Limbs
Singularity Hub - 25 Jan 2014 17:28
BrainGate, a program that pools research from several universities, is moving ever closer to giving paralyzed patients use of their limbs by using technology developed to drive computerized prosthetics to drive the paralyzed limbs. The team is developing a system in which a patient's mental signal to move an arm is recorded, filtered through a computer and sent as a command to an electric stimulation device that activates the patient's muscles.
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