Quadriplegic woman gets chocolate fix using thought-controlled robotic arm
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Quadriplegic Jan Scheuermann has been able to feed herself chocolate using a robotic arm directly controlled by her thoughts (Photo: UPMC)
Quadriplegic Jan Scheuermann prepares to take a bite out of a chocolate bar she is guiding into her mouth with a thought-controlled robot arm while research assistant Brian Wodlinger, Ph.D., watches on (Photo: UPMC)
Jan Scheuermann, who has quadriplegia, takes a bite out of a chocolate bar she has guided into her mouth with a thought-controlled robot arm (Photo: UPMC)
Researcher Andrew Schwartz, Ph.D., shakes Jan Scheuermann’s robot hand, which she calls Hector (Photo: UPMC)
Jan Scheuermann stacks cones with a mind-controlled robot arm (Photo: UPMC)
The prosthetic arm, designed by the John Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) and funded by the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (Photo: DARPA and JHU/APL)
Article Summary
Earlier this year, a 58 year-old woman who had lost the use of her limbs was successfully able to drink a cup of coffee by herself using a robotic arm controlled by her thoughts via a brain computer interface (BCI). Now, in a separate study, another woman with longstanding quadriplegia has been able to feed herself a chocolate bar using a mind-controlled, human-like robot arm offering what researchers claim is a level of agility and control approaching that of a human limb
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