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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May 25, 2015
Flying a jet via mind control
Jan Scheuermann, a quadriplegic and pioneering patient for an experimental Pentagon robotics program, continues to break ground in freeing the mind from the body. The 55-year-old mother of two in 2012 agreed to let surgeons implant electrodes on her brain to control a robotic arm. More recently, she flew an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter simulator using nothing but her thoughts, an official said.
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