May 25, 2015

Paralyzed man drinks beer using his imagination

A man who is paralyzed from the neck down was able to drink from a bottle of beer by using his imagination. Erik Sorto, 34, has been paralyzed for the last 13 years, but was able to use a robotic arm controlled by his thoughts recently via two silicon chips in his brain, which were able to determine what his intentions were and then send those commands to a prosthetic arm on a table nearby.

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