The scientist Miguel Nicolelis in his laboratory at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina: a new research made monkeys move a virtual arm using only brain signals.
One more step in the ambitious project “Walk Again”, coordinated by the Brazilian scientist Miguel Nicolelis , who want to create a robot able vest to make a quadriplegic walk again. In a study published online by the magazine Nature, Nicolelis and his team report that the experience made a monkey control a virtual arm using only thought. But the study went further: the monkey got back tactile signals, as if the virtual arm could feel the texture of real objects, a first in the history of science.
The research opens way for in the near future, as they want Nicolelis and his team at Duke University, USA, and Institute of Neuroscience of Natal, in Brazil, a tetraplegic to walk again using a robotic device. Fanatic Palmeiras, the Brazilian scientist's goal is to make a person wearing the vest kick off the opening match of World Cup 2014.
The revolution is in the fact that this time, Nicolelis's team used a brain-machine interface, brain (ICMC), equal to the ICM, but able to send information back to the brain by means of visual, tactile or electrical . It is as if the brain talk to the machine and the machine talk back to the brain.
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