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Monday, December 17, 2012

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News


Woman with quadriplegia feeds herself chocolate using mind-controlled robot arm

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 12:09 AM PST

Reaching out to "high five" someone, grasping and moving objects of different shapes and sizes, feeding herself dark chocolate. For Jan Scheuermann and a team of researchers, accomplishing these seemingly ordinary tasks demonstrated for the first time that a person with longstanding quadriplegia can maneuver a mind-controlled, human-like robot arm in seven dimensions (7D) to consistently perform many of the natural and complex motions of everyday life.

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