Standardizing the Brain-Machine Interface
From: IEEE Spectrum - 04/2008
By: Morgen E. Peck

Earlier this year in a lab at Duke University, in Durham, NC, a clever,
raisin-gobbling ­monkey named Idoya made a robot move in Japan - just by
thinking. And she wasn't alone. She joined ranks with, among others, a
paraplegic man who recently used his brain to move a cursor around a
computer screen. 

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http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr08/6105

Links:
Engineers Work on Laser-Based Brain-Machine Interface for Prosthetic Arm
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb08/5988

Lakshmin­arayan Srini­vasan
http://www.mit.edu/~ls2/

New Prosthetic Devices Will Convert Brain Signals into Action
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071003130747.htm

Mastering the Brain-Computer Interface
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr08/6181
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr08/6181/jhusb01

Dean Kamen's "Luke Arm" Prosthesis Readies for Clinical Trials
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb08/5957

Artificial Arm Researchers Restore Feeling of Missing Limb
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec07/5756

Fueling a Robotic Arms Race
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec07/5794