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Mind Controlled Prostethics
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIgdOlT2cY
This has been achieved around 10 years ago with monkeys.
The above is a recent video, but many others exist too. Where monkeys control robotic arms, drive wheelchairs, play simple videogames, etc by using their brain alone.
It is cool tech and probably will be further researched and advanced. It is well to note that it feels like having an extra limb, or sense. Even for missing limbs, they remain missing for the brain regardless.
| So we could have 4 arms? Two completely superior and and attack able when the time is needed??!
| Uhmm... Why stop at 4?
| I'm studying Bionics but this is just my second year. A couple of persons that graduated last semester designed prosthetics that moved like that (an eye and an arm) and I was really impressed.
I wonder if I'll be doing stuff like that in the future, that would be great.
| The future will probably be cool
| I am afraid that people must receive some invasive treatment to make it work.
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| Recently I watched a video on YouTube showing off a mind controlled prosthetic arm. The man who had been testing it on an off for a couple years is now able to use it on his own for a year. What are your thoughts on this and the future of prosthetics?