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Man With Quadriplegia Controls Robot Arm With Mind
awtbfb writes "Tim Hemmes, with the help of University of Pittsburgh researchers, successfully controlled a robot arm in three dimensions. He's had quadriplegia for seven years. The feat was accomplished using implanted ECoG electrodes and weeks of computer training. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 'Ever since his accident, Mr. Hemmes said, he's had the goal of hugging his daughter Jaylei.' Next up are six more 30-day participants, followed by a year-long study."
The last few stories have left me with the sensation that technology has been totallyv appropriated by the nanny state morons.
Please tell me this arm doesn't squeel back to the fbi if it thinks it is being used for "inappropriate touching" or somthing. That would ruin it.
Whatever happened to technology serving humanity? (And no, I don't mean serving the legal papers.)
Back on topic, does the neural grid arraay cause neural scarring like other BCEs?
Seriously. Saw this on google news a day ago. Goatse FTW!!!
--QuadrasexualPuppy
I, for one, would like to welcome our quadriplegic mind controlled robot overlords.
Now give the man some turret mounted machine guns and cyborg legs already.
s/[stupid comments]/[intelligent discourse]/gi
Dear Science:
As soon as you possibly can, please install four Doc-Ock-like arms on my back, to be controlled in the manner described in this story.
Love,
icannotthinkofaname
Let q be a radix > 1. I am in ur base-q, killing 10 d00ds.
I for one welcome our new....screw it, this one's too easy.
and before you know it the super soldiers will be hear.
The positive thing about this that surpasses the other advancements of this nature is that they are actually performing trials with more than one lucky person. Some day this may actually become feasible treatment. And that, my friends, is what makes science worthwhile.
Mindquad
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I control my biological arm with my mind.
The fact that we can pull the data necessary to control the robot arm out of the brain, without unacceptable damage, is pretty damn sci-fi...
Robot arms, though, outside of niche applications, are actually pretty clunky. I wonder how far we are from being able to feed the control signals back into the muscles and nerves that are present; but not receiving the signals they require?
...SO DO I AS WELL!!!
There's no reason you couldn't transmit data from the human subject to a remote humanoid robot on the battlefield. If this method allowed enough coordination in movement, the robot could easily surpass the ability of a traditional human soldier.
"Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M Tim Hemmes will be that man. Better than he was before. Better...stronger...faster."........
Ahhh, where is Oscar Goldman when you need him? On a more serious note, I know guys who did the dive from the railway trestle into the pond, hit their neck on the rock and now use a pointer between their teeth to type into a computer. Still crazy ("It was always fun to get into a Chevy Pickup with a 350 big block under the hood, get it up to 80 on the icy highway, then slam on the emergency brake and crank the wheel and go for a hell of a ride"). But this would give them a new lease on life. If you are a daredevil (a.k.a. trouble junkie or adrenaline junkie), the only thing that gets you off is the crazy stuff. You have to do it till you die (and that all depends on whether you survive). So long as there is a brain and neurons able to actuate motors/muscles/whatever, you have a chance at going again. Hopefully, this technology will be used responsibly.
Robot control YOUR mind!
This sig is not paradoxical or ironic.
Wake me up when you can control women with your mind. That's far more conducive to a health life!
When I first read this headline I saw, "Robot with mind controls man with quadriplegia". Now that would be real news. Imagine my disappointment. Brains controlling robot arms is OLD. O. L. D.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. -- John von Neumann
How long will it be until someone hacks into the interface and controls the arm remotely (ending up like Dr. Stangelove's Nazi-Arm).
Would it be admissible as a defense against a crime? "Your Honor, I didn't do it, my (robotically controlled) arm did!"
says the guy with 500 user accounts!
fuck you!
did you know if you use your last mod point to troll a Kristopeit post that's already not at a -1, you instantly get 5 more!
I shit in your mums yard. no actually! and I bet she thought you came home for a minute til she got close!
Ok, I'm obviously missing something but if they have an interface from his (brain) neurons to some electronics why can't they put in an interface from the electronics to his (lower body) neurons!
Essentially use the electronics to bridge the place where (I assume) the neurons are broken.
Of course there would need to be protections against hacking or this would bring a whole new set of connotations to the term "Zombies" both in popular culture and as referred to with computers that have been taken over.
No it isn't. It's as much bullshit as Chemtrails. They'd have to implant stuff into your brain without you knowing. That's a tough challenge to do with one subject and you think the majority of the US citizens have had this done? Unrealistic to say the least.
Well, I might have a way, but it only works on a semi spherical planet in a vacuum.
Quadriplegia was definitely my favorite album by The Who.
Does he have to think in Russian?
"I never asked for this."
Larry Niven? Who's with me, here...
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes" - Winston Churchill