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Friday, April 29, 2011

Mind-controlled prosthetics to help amputees - health - 28 April 2011 - New Scientist

Mind-controlled prosthetics to help amputees - health - 28 April 2011 - New Scientist: "ROBOTIC limbs controlled solely by the mind could be available to paralysed people within a year.

Monkeys are being trained to control what might be the world's most sophisticated and human-like robot arm. But they never touch the prosthetic limb or fiddle with a remote control: they guide it with their thoughts alone. If trials are successful, in a few months from now people with spinal cord injuries could learn to do the same."

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