{"id":130268,"date":"2021-11-08T22:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T06:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/brain-implant-translates-paralyzed-mans-thoughts-into-text-with-94-accuracy"},"modified":"2021-11-08T22:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T06:22:50","slug":"brain-implant-translates-paralyzed-mans-thoughts-into-text-with-94-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/brain-implant-translates-paralyzed-mans-thoughts-into-text-with-94-accuracy","title":{"rendered":"Brain Implant Translates Paralyzed Man\u2019s Thoughts Into Text With 94% Accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pcApwQxbagg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A man paralyzed from the neck down due to a spinal cord injury he sustained in 2007 has shown he can communicate his thoughts, thanks to a brain implant system that translates his imagined handwriting into actual text.<\/p>\n<p>The device \u2013 part of a longstanding research collaboration called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-neural-implant-lets-als-patients-type-words-with-their-thoughts\">BrainGate<\/a> \u2013 is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface\">brain-computer interface<\/a> (BCI), that uses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"artificial intelligence\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) to interpret signals of neural activity generated during handwriting.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the man \u2013 called T5 in the study, and who was 65 years of age at the time of the research \u2013 wasn\u2019t doing any actual writing, as his hand, along with all his limbs, had been paralyzed for several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man paralyzed from the neck down due to a spinal cord injury he sustained in 2007 has shown he can communicate his thoughts, thanks to a brain implant system that translates his imagined handwriting into actual text. The device \u2013 part of a longstanding research collaboration called BrainGate \u2013 is a brain-computer interface (BCI), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}