Yeah! I remember reading about the experiments with monkeys a few years ago, where robot arms were controlled via electrodes. The application to prostheses was obvious. Neat!
It's not direct nerve-to-electrode thingy, though, the technology of controlling prostheses by contracting muscles that are still there and using pickups of that is well-understood and fairly standard issue in high end prostheses by now, the new thing is the surgery they're using to graft the nerves that used to control the limbs into a section of otherwise not terribly useful muscle, so that you get more connection options plus they're activated by the same nerves as before, which allows for easier learning of the behaviour.
Directly interfacing a nerve bundle into a multiple-connection pickup chip is what's going to be the real breakthrough, eventually.
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Date: 2006-09-15 05:15 pm (UTC)Directly interfacing a nerve bundle into a multiple-connection pickup chip is what's going to be the real breakthrough, eventually.