Paralyzed man uses mind-powered robot arm to touch

[davidedicillo]

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9Q96SH00.htm

[_csoz]

BrainGate[1] was the first BCI for paraplegics, which used Utah arrays to record from the motor cortex in order to guide movement. Matt Nagle[1] was one of the first people to try it. I wonder what is different in this case.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/BrainGate [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Nagle

[ajju]

Georgia Tech's Brainlab has had an amazing set of tools that do similar things. A friend of mine helped built something that allowed a disabled person to control a wheelchair using a BCI.

[ck2]

For some strange reason only the dailymail has all the photos and video.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2047345/Father-par...

[RobertKohr → ck2]

"Mr Hemmes then had the chip removed as the Food and Drug Administration will only allow one-month trials for safety reasons."

That is a darn shame. It must take a lot of effort to train control in less than a month.

[wavephorm]

Is it so hard in this futuristic day in age to take even a 1 minite video of the movement of the arm?