Newly developed artificial intelligence can account for how the brain changes as we learn, enabling a person with paralysis to move objects.
Newly developed artificial intelligence can account for how the brain changes as we learn, enabling a person with paralysis to move objects.
Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm that receives signals from his brain via a computer.
He was able to grasp, move and drop objects just by imagining himself performing the actions.
The device, known as a brain-computer interface (BCI), worked for a record seven months without needing to be adjusted. Until now, such devices have only worked for a day or two. The BCI relies on an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can adjust to the small changes that take place in the brain as a person repeats a movement – or in this case, an imagined movement – and learns to do it in a more refined way.
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