{"id":32678,"date":"2016-12-15T00:47:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T08:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/how-to-control-a-robotic-arm-with-your-mind-no-implanted-electrodes-required"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:12:09","slug":"how-to-control-a-robotic-arm-with-your-mind-no-implanted-electrodes-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/how-to-control-a-robotic-arm-with-your-mind-no-implanted-electrodes-required","title":{"rendered":"How to control a robotic arm with your mind \u2014 no implanted electrodes required"},"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\/w6QEGeIKHw0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" title=\"brain cap to move robotic arm with mind\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-control-a-robotic-arm-with-your-mind-no-implanted-electrodes-required.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"379\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>Research subjects at the University of Minnesota fitted with a specialized noninvasive EEG brain cap were able to move a robotic arm in three dimensions just by imagining moving their own arms (credit: University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Minnesota have achieved a \u201cmajor breakthrough\u201d that allows people to control a robotic arm in three dimensions, using only their minds. The research has the potential to help millions of people who are paralyzed or have neurodegenerative diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/srep38565\" target=\"_blank\">open-access study<\/a> is published online today in <em>Scientific Reports, <\/em>a <em>Nature<\/em> research journal.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/how-to-control-a-robotic-arm-with-your-mind-no-implanted-electrodes-required\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/how-to-control-a-robotic-arm-with-...s-required<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research subjects at the University of Minnesota fitted with a specialized noninvasive EEG brain cap were able to move a robotic arm in three dimensions just by imagining moving their own arms (credit: University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering) Researchers at the University of Minnesota have achieved a \u201cmajor breakthrough\u201d that allows people [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32678","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38095,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32678\/revisions\/38095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}