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Re: Amazing stuff!

At 00:19 6/26/99 -0400, Bob wrote:

"When control of the robot arm was switched to the brain, the robot arm went
over and brought water to the animal's mouth before the animal even started
to move," Chapin said. "After a couple of days, the animals began to
recognize that and they stopped actually pressing the lever."

The neurobiologists think the technology may someday help paralyzed people.


Bob Sciamanda

Someday? Next week, yes and now quite probably.
The next trick is thought relays WITHOUT internal electrodes.
Experimentally demonstrated for some years, this needs signal massaging
with the ubiquitous online computer of noisy signals from a helmet.

brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK