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Brain-machine interface update
« on: 2003-10-13 15:09:26 » |
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An update on the brain-machine interface, aka psychokinetic wired monkeys at Duke:
Those wired monkeys moved a robotic arm by thought alone, without having to hold and move a dummy handle for stimulating the right brain activity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/13/science/13BRAI.html
or in the SciTech section of our BBS
http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=26633
As the article says, this can be important for people with kinetic disabilities in the short term. Probably much more in the long term.
Here is a small Flash animation http://news.mc.duke.edu/filebank/2003/10/41/Robot_arm.swf
The full study is here: http://www.plosbiology.org/pips/plbi-01-02-carmena.pdf
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