The Real Cyborg: Mechanical Brain Interface
Cyberkinetics Inc. Braingate System
April 20, 2004. The FDA has approved a clinical trial of a brain-computer interface built by a new company, Cyberkinetics, Inc. A computer chip about the size of a baby aspirin, with 100 tiny electrode sensors is surgically attached to neurons in the primary motor cortex. The sensor will be connected by a small wire to a small pedestal mounted on the skull, which in turn will be connected by a cable to several computers.
Basically, the test subjects, five volunteer quadriplegic patients will attempt to control a computer cursor by thinking about it.
"The ultimate goal of the BrainGate development program is to develop a safe, effective and unobtrusive neural interface which will allow quadriplegic people to control computers and computer controlled devices using their thoughts. The pilot study that we have started today is a first important step toward that objective," said Tim Surgenor, President and CEO of Cyberkinetics. "The BrainGate neural interface is a groundbreaking effort to develop an implantable system which can be routinely used to provide an important advance in the level of independence for quadriplegics."
April 20, 2004. The FDA has approved a clinical trial of a brain-computer interface built by a new company, Cyberkinetics, Inc. A computer chip about the size of a baby aspirin, with 100 tiny electrode sensors is surgically attached to neurons in the primary motor cortex. The sensor will be connected by a small wire to a small pedestal mounted on the skull, which in turn will be connected by a cable to several computers.
Basically, the test subjects, five volunteer quadriplegic patients will attempt to control a computer cursor by thinking about it.
"The ultimate goal of the BrainGate development program is to develop a safe, effective and unobtrusive neural interface which will allow quadriplegic people to control computers and computer controlled devices using their thoughts. The pilot study that we have started today is a first important step toward that objective," said Tim Surgenor, President and CEO of Cyberkinetics. "The BrainGate neural interface is a groundbreaking effort to develop an implantable system which can be routinely used to provide an important advance in the level of independence for quadriplegics."
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