Tuesday, December 3, 2024
HomeHuman EnhancementPatients testing a brain-computer interface

Patients testing a brain-computer interface

From Wired: Five quadriplegic patients might be months away from testing a brain-computer interface created by Cyberkinetics, a privately held company in Foxboro, Massachusetts. The company's system, called BrainGate, could help patients with no mobility to control a computer, a robot or eventually their own rewired muscles, using only their thoughts.

From Wired: Five quadriplegic patients might be months away from testing a brain-computer interface created by Cyberkinetics, a privately held company in Foxboro, Massachusetts. The company's system, called BrainGate, could help patients with no mobility to control a computer, a robot or eventually their own rewired muscles, using only their thoughts. If the trials go well, a product could be on the market by 2007.
Cyberkinetics already has trained monkeys to move a cursor using only…

Source: http://www.transhumanism.com/news_comments.php?id=1100_0_2_0_C

RELATED ARTICLES

Most Popular