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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