Thursday, May 17, 2012

Mind Over Matter

The wonderful world of biomedical engineering is demonstrated beautifully in this video from the journal Nature.  It shows a tetraplegic woman controlling a robotic arm with nothing but the thoughts from the motor cortex of her brain:



Take 4.5 minutes to view this incredible work.  It will make your day.

-Wes

1 comment:

Steve Parker, M.D. said...

It looks too good to be true. Frankly, I'm skeptical. It can't be that "easy."