Artificial limbs Controlled by thoughts Content · What is it? · Origin · Critical Breakthrough · Why ? · How it works? · Future of bionic limbs What is it? · New generation coming from prosthesis · Unlike prosthesis, bionic limb is tied with brain and spinal cord through sensors Origin · Research started in 1960 - Scientists made sure that signals from living brain could be fed into a computer · Experiment in 1990s - Group of people in Duke University Center for Neuroengineering experimented with microwires, a hair-thin sensors · Work in past two decades - Once implanted, the sensors can detect signals from frontal and parietal Critical Breakthrough · 2011, two monkeys learned to control virtual hand with thoughts · This program allowed to train animals to feel virtual object... ...And paralyzed humans to regain full- body mobility Why? · To allow paralyzed and disordered people preform normal, even ...
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Character List Paul Bäumer - A young German soldier fighting in the trenches during World War I. Paul is the protagonist and narrator of the novel. He is, at heart, a kind, compas-sionate, and sensitive young man, but the brutal expe-rience of warfare teaches him to detach himself from his feelings. His account of the war is a bitter invective against sentimental, romantic ideals of warfare. Read an in-depth analysis of Paul Bäumer. Stanislaus Katczinsky - A soldier belonging to Paul's company and Paul's best friend in the army. Kat, as he is known, is forty years old at the beginning of the novel and has a family at home. He is a resourceful, inventive man and always finds food, clothing, and blankets whenever he and his friends need them. Albert Kropp - One of Paul's classmates who serves with Paul in the Second Company. An intelligent, speculative young man, Kropp is one of Paul...
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