Innovation

Watch a Person Move a Wheelchair With Just Their Brain

MIND CONTROL

Two people with no mobility below their neck could operate the device with their minds.

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No one, not even José del R. Millán, was expecting Subject 1 to have a breakthrough when he did. The 26-year-old, who has tetraplegia with no mobility below the neck, had to be hospitalized part-way through Millán’s study for an unrelated complication, and he had gone through more than 20...

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