Original upload date: Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:42:13 GMT
Cathy Hutchinson has been unable to move her own arms or legs for 15 years. But using the most advanced brain-machine interface ever developed, she can steer a robotic arm towards a bottle, pick it u
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p, and drink her morning coffee. The interface includes a sensor implanted in Cathy's brain, which 'reads' her thoughts, and a decoder, which turns her thoughts into instructions for the robotic arm. In this video, watch Cathy control the arm and hear from the team behind the pioneering study.
The original research paper is here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v485/n7398/full/nature11076.html
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