Mind-Controlled Limbs

erco

http://news.yahoo.com/incredible-rise-mind-controlled-limbs-202314564.html

Encouraging robotics news.

Catweasel

erco wrote: »

http://news.yahoo.com/incredible-rise-mind-controlled-limbs-202314564.html
Encouraging robotics news.

Indeed. I still remember watching Steve Austin doing his thing (in slomo) and thought: Yeah. That's never gonna happen. I thought it would be too complicated tapping a nerve signal path, let's say in a shoulder, or hip.
It never occured to me back then to interface the brain directly....
Until I saw BeBe in "Deadly Friend" :-)

erco

If Dean Kamen is "in it to win it", there's something in prosthetics. Segway aside, he's a smart cookie!

http://www.ted.com/talks/dean_kamen_previews_a_new_prosthetic_arm.html