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Paralyzed people control robotic arms directly with brain activity
A new study in Nature reports that two paralyzed people were able to grasp objects using robotic arms that they controlled with a brain-computer interface. On April 12, 2011, nearly 15 years after she became paralyzed and unable to speak, one of the subjects controlled a robotic arm by thinking about moving her arm and hand to lift a bottle of coffee to...
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