kartooner

“Sci­en­tists in North Car­olina have built a brain implant that lets mon­keys con­trol a robotic arm with their thoughts, mark­ing the first time that men­tal inten­tions have been har­nessed to move a mechan­i­cal object.

The tech­nol­ogy could some­day allow peo­ple with par­a­lyz­ing spinal cord injuries to oper­ate machines or tools with their thoughts as nat­u­rally as oth­ers today do with their hands. It might even allow some par­a­lyzed peo­ple to move their own arms or legs again, by trans­mit­ting the brain’s direc­tions not to a machine but directly to the mus­cles in those latent limbs.“

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