Mind-Controlled Limbs

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• Catweasel Posts: 34

  2012-05-16 16:10 edited 2012-05-16 16:10

  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 Posts: 20,261

  2012-05-16 16:31 edited 2012-05-16 16:31

  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