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Woman with quadriplegia feeds herself chocolate using mind-controlled robot arm |
December 17, 2012
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.
Link: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/computers_math/computer_science/~3/c19DyHHh8dA/121217030957.htm
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