"microwires" - 1 õppematerjal

Artificial limbs Presentatsion

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 super-normal tasks · To do dangerous jobs from safe distance How it works