March 24, 2004

Thought controlled arm

I read about this last year. Apparently it's progressing along...

Scientists who trained a monkey to move a mechanical arm using thought alone said on Tuesday that experiments in Parkinson's disease patients show the technique may work in humans, too.

Story here...

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