{"id":26020,"date":"2021-05-26T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/?p=26020"},"modified":"2024-03-21T20:57:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T20:57:17","slug":"this-brain-controlled-robotic-arm-can-twist-grasp-and-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/2021\/05\/26\/this-brain-controlled-robotic-arm-can-twist-grasp-and-feel\/","title":{"rendered":"This Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm Can Twist, Grasp\u2014and Feel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NATHAN COPELAND WAS\u00a018 years old when he was paralyzed by a car accident in 2004. He lost his ability to move and feel most of his body, although he does retain a bit of sensation in his wrists and a few fingers, and he has some movement in his shoulders. While in the hospital, he joined a registry for experimental research. About six years ago, he got a call:\u00a0<em>Would you like to join our study?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nActually producing realistic sensory signals like this is \u201ca major win,\u201d says Bolu Ajiboye, a neural engineer from Case Western University who was not involved with the study. \u201cIt suggests that we can begin to at least approach full mimicry of natural and intact movements.\u201d\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/this-brain-controlled-robotic-arm-can-twist-grasp-and-feel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">> (opens in a new tab)&#8221;>Read full story>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATHAN COPELAND WAS\u00a018 years old when he was paralyzed by a car accident in 2004. He lost his ability to move and feel most of his body, although he does retain a bit of sensation in his wrists and a few fingers, and he has some movement in his shoulders. While in the hospital, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,5,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-prosthetics","category-research","category-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27848,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26020\/revisions\/27848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}