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Unlocking Movement: Helping Paralyzed People Use Thought to Control Computers and Robotic Limbs
Richard Andersen
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. PT
What if there was a way to help paralyzed patients regain sensation and control over assistive
devices using their thoughts?
In this talk, neuroscientist Richard Andersen will discuss how researchers in his lab and their colleagues have used a novel approach of implanting electrodes in a variety of specialized cortical areas rather than the motor cortex on its own. Using this approach, paralyzed patients can control robotics and computers that allow them to drink a beverage, play a computer piano, use video games and programs like Adobe Photoshop, drive an automobile, and feel the sensation of touch in hands and arms previously been rendered insensate from spinal cord injury.
Register here:
https://events.caltech.edu/calendar/watson-lecture-unlocking-movement-helping-paralyzed-people-use-thought-to-control-computers-and-robotic-limbs?utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=watson-lectures&utm_source=youtube&utm_content=&utm_term=
Unlocking Movement: Helping Paralyzed People Use Thought to Control Computers and Robotic Limbs
Richard Andersen
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. PT
What if there was a way to help paralyzed patients regain sensation and control over assistive
devices using their thoughts?
In this talk, neuroscientist Richard Andersen will discuss how researchers in his lab and their colleagues have used a novel approach of implanting electrodes in a variety of specialized cortical areas rather than the motor cortex on its own. Using this approach, paralyzed patients can control robotics and computers that allow them to drink a beverage, play a computer piano, use video games and programs like Adobe Photoshop, drive an automobile, and feel the sensation of touch in hands and arms previously been rendered insensate from spinal cord injury.
Register here:
https://events.caltech.edu/calendar/watson-lecture-unlocking-movement-helping-paralyzed-people-use-thought-to-control-computers-and-robotic-limbs?utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=watson-lectures&utm_source=youtube&utm_content=&utm_term=
