Moving matter with thought
Several weeks ago, I noted that Toyota was developing a thought-controlled wheelchair. Now I see in the New York Times that research in the area of controlling things with thought is continuing apace:
Learning to move a computer cursor or robotic arm with nothing but thoughts can be no different from learning how to play tennis or ride a bicycle, according to a new study of how brains and machines interact.
The research, which was carried out in monkeys but is expected to apply to humans, involves a fundamental redesign of brain-machine experiments.
The article describes work at the University of California, Berkeley:
In the new experiments, monkeys learned how to move a computer cursor with their thoughts using just one set of instructions and an unusually small number of brain cells that deliver instructions for performing movements the same way each day.
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