Mind Controlled Robot Arm

Development

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) “Modular Prosthetic Limb”

17 motors- control 26 joints

University of Pittsburg MotorLab two four-millimeter-by-four-

millimeter electrode arrays into their brain

Algorithm

Training

Imagine

Record

Feedback loop

Concentration

Jan Scheuermann

Spinocerebellar degeneration

two quarter-inch square electrode grids with 96 tiny contact points

Neuron firing

Arm wristobjects

One small nibble for a woman, one giant bite for BCI (Brain Controlled Interfaces)

Hector Amazing Technology

Looking to the Future

Sensory feedback

Wireless control Problems Solution

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Prigg, Mark. "'One small nibble for a woman': The mind controlled robotic arm that could give the paralysed a new lease of life." Daily Mail:Science. 17 12 2012: 1. Web. 15 Apr. 2013. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2249321/The-mind-controlled-robot- arm-lets-paralysed-write-eat.html.

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