Top 100 Stories of 2015 - #57 Mind Reading at a Higher Level
From: Discover Magazine - Jan / Feb 2016 - page 58
By: Lacy Schley

Improved neural prosthetic focuses on the goal of the movement instead of the
individual steps.

People with paralysis or an amputation can already use their minds to control
robotic limbs, helping to restore their sense of independence, but the
motions are often clumsy and unnatural. Researchers announced in May that
they created a neural prosthetic that gives those with artificial limbs
finer, smoother movements.

After surgeons implanted the prosthetic in a quadriplegic patient, he could
use a robotic arm to shake someone’s hand and even hold a glass steady enough
to drink from it on his own.

Read the article at:
http://discovermagazine.com/2016/janfeb/57-mind-reading-at-a-higher-level

Links:
Decoding motor imagery from the posterior parietal cortex of a tetraplegic human
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6237/906

Controlling a Robotic Arm with a Patient's Intentions
http://www.caltech.edu/news/controlling-robotic-arm-patients-intentions-46786