{"id":201194,"date":"2024-12-10T14:43:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/muscle-implants-could-allow-mind-controlled-prosthetics-no-brain-surgery-required"},"modified":"2024-12-10T14:43:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:43:49","slug":"muscle-implants-could-allow-mind-controlled-prosthetics-no-brain-surgery-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/muscle-implants-could-allow-mind-controlled-prosthetics-no-brain-surgery-required","title":{"rendered":"Muscle Implants Could Allow Mind-Controlled Prosthetics\u2014No Brain Surgery Required"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/muscle-implants-could-allow-mind-controlled-prosthetics-no-brain-surgery-required3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A year later, he got a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/this-prosthetic-limb-actually-attaches-to-the-wearers-nerves\/\">myoelectric arm<\/a>, a type of prosthetic powered by the electrical signals in his residual limb\u2019s muscles. But Smith hardly used it because it was \u201cvery, very slow\u201d and had a limited range of movements. He could open and close the hand, but not do much else. He tried other robotic arms over the years, but they had similar problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re just not super functional,\u201d he says. \u201cThere\u2019s a massive delay between executing a function and then having the prosthetic actually do it. In my day-to-day life, it just became faster to figure out other ways to do things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, he\u2019s been trying out a new system by Austin-based startup Phantom Neuro that has the potential to provide more lifelike control of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/prosthetics\/\">prosthetic limbs<\/a>. The company is building a thin, flexible muscle implant to allow amputees a wider, more natural range of movement just by thinking about the gestures they want to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year later, he got a myoelectric arm, a type of prosthetic powered by the electrical signals in his residual limb\u2019s muscles. But Smith hardly used it because it was \u201cvery, very slow\u201d and had a limited range of movements. He could open and close the hand, but not do much else. He tried other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201194","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}