{"id":31088,"date":"2016-10-15T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/brain-implant-provides-sense-of-touch-with-robotic-hand-and-thats-just-the-start"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:21:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:21:53","slug":"brain-implant-provides-sense-of-touch-with-robotic-hand-and-thats-just-the-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/brain-implant-provides-sense-of-touch-with-robotic-hand-and-thats-just-the-start","title":{"rendered":"Brain implant provides sense of touch with robotic hand \u2013 and that\u2019s just the start"},"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\/L1bO-29FhMU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A dozen years ago, an auto accident left Nathan Copeland paralyzed, without any feeling in his fingers. Now that feeling is back, thanks to a robotic hand wired up to a brain implant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can feel just about every finger \u2013 it\u2019s a really weird sensation,\u201d the 28-year-old Pennsylvanian told doctors a month after his surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Today the brain-computer interface is taking a share of the spotlight at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontiersconference.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">White House Frontiers Conference<\/a> in Pittsburgh, with President Barack Obama and other luminaries in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/brain-implant-provides-sense-touch-160028412.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/brain-implant-provides-sense-touch-160028412.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dozen years ago, an auto accident left Nathan Copeland paralyzed, without any feeling in his fingers. Now that feeling is back, thanks to a robotic hand wired up to a brain implant. \u201cI can feel just about every finger \u2013 it\u2019s a really weird sensation,\u201d the 28-year-old Pennsylvanian told doctors a month after his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31088","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60040,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31088\/revisions\/60040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}