{"id":84925,"date":"2018-11-19T15:22:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T23:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/how-to-control-a-machine-with-your-brain"},"modified":"2018-11-19T15:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T23:22:28","slug":"how-to-control-a-machine-with-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/how-to-control-a-machine-with-your-brain","title":{"rendered":"How to Control a Machine with Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-control-a-machine-with-your-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jan Scheuermann was one of the first volunteers on DARPA\u2019s Revolutionizing Prosthetics program and became a pioneer in the field of brain-machine interface, controlling first an advanced robotic arm, and then a simulated jet, with her mind alone. <i>The <i>New Yorker<\/i><\/i> tells her story in exquisite detail, along with the story of Nathan Copeland, the volunteer who followed Jan in the research and put his own spin on how it unfolded.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A neuroscientist\u2019s research into the mysteries of motion helps a paralyzed woman escape her body.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/11\/26\/how-to-control-a-machine-with-your-brain\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/11\/26\/how-to-control...your-brain<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan Scheuermann was one of the first volunteers on DARPA\u2019s Revolutionizing Prosthetics program and became a pioneer in the field of brain-machine interface, controlling first an advanced robotic arm, and then a simulated jet, with her mind alone. The New Yorker tells her story in exquisite detail, along with the story of Nathan Copeland, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84925","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\/84925","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}