Mind Controlled Robot Arm

Development  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)  “Modular Prosthetic Limb”  17 motors- control 26 joints  University of Pittsburg  MotorLab MotorLab  two four-millimeter-by-four-millimeter electrode arrays into their brain  Algorithm

Training  Imagine  Record  Feedback loop  Concentration

Jan Scheuermann  Spinocerebellar degeneration  two quarter-inch square electrode grids with 96 tiny contact points  Neuron firing  Arm  wrist  objects  One small nibble for a woman, one giant bite for BCI (Brain Controlled Interfaces)  Hector  Amazing Technology Amazing Technology

Looking to the Future  Sensory feedback  Wireless control  Problems  Solution

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