Sonia Arrison » brain-machine interface http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog Technology & Society Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:53:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Paralysed man walks in Second Life using brain-machine interface http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/2008/06/03/paralysed-man-walks-in-second-life-using-brain-machine-interface/ http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/2008/06/03/paralysed-man-walks-in-second-life-using-brain-machine-interface/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:44:27 +0000 sonia http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/?p=409 A brain-computer interface was implanted in a Japanese man’s motor cortex. Signals that would have made his own arms and legs move instead went to the avatar’s, making it move. Here’s the video and the story.

]]> http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/2008/06/03/paralysed-man-walks-in-second-life-using-brain-machine-interface/feed/ 0 More monkeys control robotic arms http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/2008/05/28/more-monkeys-control-robotic-arms/ http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/2008/05/28/more-monkeys-control-robotic-arms/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 20:02:21 +0000 sonia http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/?p=404 The NYT reports that Dr. Andrew Schwartz, professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh, and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University have managed to get monkeys to control a robotic arm with their thoughts in order to put food in their mouths. This is not a new feat, but according to the Times, the “snacks reached their mouths about two-thirds of the time — an impressive rate, compared with earlier work.”

Great news for people with paralyzing conditions and also for those fascinated with machine-brain interfaces.

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