Robot Connector
From: Popular Science - 11/2007 - The Brilliant Ten - page 78

Yoky Matsuoka, 36; University of Washington

She's built incredibly lifelike robots. Now she's connecting them directly to
our brains. 

Yoky Matsuoka grew up dreaming of becoming a top-ranked tennis pro, but she
wasn't your average jock. She spent a lot of on-court time pondering how her
brain was controlling her hand, allowing her to smoothly swing her racket at
just the right time and angle. More than a decade and several mechanical
hands later, Matsuoka is still chasing the same question. But now she's
pursuing it by trying to build the ultimate prosthetic-a fully functional
replica of the human hand, controlled directly by the brain.  

Read the entire article at:
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2007-10/popscis-6th-annual-brilliant-ten?page=8

Links:
Yoky Matsuoka
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/matsuoka_yoky.html
http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/faculty/matsuoka.shtml
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/yoky/

MacArthur Fellows 2007
http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2913825/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={855A99DE-8277-4E4A-BCC2-10BDCEC1F969}&notoc=1

UW computer engineer wins MacArthur Foundation 'genius' award
http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=36725

Neurobotics Laboratory
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/labs/lab_58.html

Imagining A Bionic Future
http://www.nbc6.net/msnbcnews/14694966/detail.html