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title: Paralyzed Woman Controls a Robotic Arm With Her Mind — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/paralyzed-woman-controls-a-robotic-arm-with-her-mind/
date: 2012-05-17
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# Paralyzed Woman Controls a Robotic Arm With Her Mind

Cathy Hutchinson has been unable to move her own arms or legs for 15 years. But using the most advanced brain-machine interface ever developed, she can steer a robotic arm towards a bottle, pick it up, and drink her morning coffee. The interface includes a sensor implanted in Cathy’s brain, which ‘reads’ her thoughts, and a decoder, which turns her thoughts into instructions for the robotic arm. In this video, watch Cathy control the arm and hear from the team behind the pioneering study.

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