Brain Chip Helps Paralyzed Man Feel His Fingers – Obama Geeks Out Over a Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm That ‘Feels’

Brain Chip Helps Paralyzed Man Feel His Fingers

An implanted brain chip is helping Nathan Copeland feel his fingers for the first time in a decade.

by Maggie Fox

Video: http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/brain-chip-helps-paralyzed-man-feel-his-fingers-n665881

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When Nathan Copeland got into a car accident in 2004, he suffered a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed in both arms and both legs. Eventually, Copeland got a prosthetic–but one that is very different from most anyone else’s out there. Copeland is the first person in the world to use a system created by DARPA and the National Science Foundation, which allows him to "experience" the sensation of touch via a special robotic prosthesis. He has a brain implant that lets him control and feel the system with his mind. Pretty amazing stuff.

Davey Alba

Full Story: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/obama-geeks-brain-controlled-robotic-arm-feels/

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Implants and robotic arm let paralyzed man regain feeling

Nathan Copeland, a 28-year-old man who couldn’t feel or move his lower arms and legs after a car accident, has regained the sensation of touch through a robotic arm that he controls with his brain.

Copeland’s surgery, which involved implanting four tiny microelectrode arrays each about half the size of a shirt button in his brain, is a medical first.

Posted by Arvind Suresh

Full Story: http://www.futurity.org/robotic-arm-implants-1271892-2/?utm_source=Futurity+Today&utm_campaign=c8b20d8832-October_17_201610_17_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e34e8ee443-c8b20d8832-203916893