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How to Control a Robotic Arm
People can just think of movements, and a computer should be able to figure out what the movement is. So if i imagine i'm raising my hand to hi fiveyou, in my brain, it looks like i'm actually raising my hand inifi. And that's not all: we can stimulate an area of the ring called the smat sary cortex that typically receives that tactalimpe from your hand - even when you're not touching something. We can decode those patterns of activity to control a robotic arm, so that people can pick up and move objects a no, just by thinking about it.
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