The hand is the most complex moving part of the body. It took me, I guess 40 years to get to the point where we're actually developing those kinds of devices. A computer controlled knee was like big time stuff in the 80s. There's no way to make a robot right now.
Are we nearing the singularity? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about brain machine interfaces and prosthetics you can control with your mind, with biomedical engineer Dr. Cindy Chestek and neurosurgeon Dr. Parag Patil
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