Brain-Reading Devices Help Paralyzed People Move, Talk and Touch

Photo caption: U.S. President Barack Obama touches a robotic arm operated by a quadriplegic brain implant patient who can… Photo credit: Reuters / Carlos Barria / Alamy Stock Photo. Article by Liam Drew. Scientific American – April 22, 2022. This article was first published in Nature magazine.

Implants are becoming more sophisticated—and are attracting commercial interest

James Johnson hopes to drive a car again one day. If he does, he will do it using only his thoughts. In March 2017, Johnson broke his neck in a go-carting accident, leaving him almost completely paralysed below the shoulders. He understood his new reality better than most. For decades, he had been a carer for people with paralysis. “There was a deep depression,” he says. […]

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