Monkeys Drive Wheelchairs Using Thought Alone
From: Popular Science - 03/03/2016
By: Claire Maldarelli

A major step toward helping humans with paralysis

A group of researchers have figured out a way to allow monkeys to control a
wheelchair with their minds. The achievement, which uses a brain implant,
could soon even severely paralyzed people to control their wheelchairs,
allowing them much more mobility than before.

The researchers think that in the future this method could be employed not
only to control wheelchairs, but also other artificial limbs.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.popsci.com/robotic-wheelchair-can-be-now-be-controlled-by-monkeys-brain

Links:
Wireless Cortical Brain-Machine Interface for Whole-Body Navigation in
  Primates
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep22170

Monkeys with Brain Implants Drive Wheelchairs Using Their Minds
http://www.mdtmag.com/blog/2016/03/monkeys-brain-implants-drive-wheelchairs-using-their-minds

This new wireless tech lets monkeys control a wheelchair using just their
  thoughts (with video 1:11)
http://www.techconnect.com/article/3040697/this-new-wireless-tech-lets-monkeys-control-a-wheelchair-using-just-their-thoughts.html

Monkeys Control Wheelchair with Thoughts
http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2016/03/monkeys-control-wheelchair-thoughts

Monkey Think, Monkey Do: Primates Control Robotic Chair with Their Minds
http://www.ecnmag.com/blog/2016/03/monkey-think-monkey-do-primates-control-robotic-wheelchair-wireless-brain-implants

Interface Helps Enable Monkeys to Drive Wheelchairs Using Their Thoughts
http://www.rehabpub.com/2016/03/interface-helps-enable-monkeys-drive-wheelchairs-using-thoughts

Related:
New Device Could Enable Brain Control of Exoskeletons
http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2016/02/new-device-could-enable-brain-control-exoskeletons