Doctors Cindy Chestek and Parag Patil talk about neuro prosthetics. Exoskeleton is one of the ways of giving the movement back to an amputee or a paralyzed person. It's looking to restore and recapture the movement in the hand of someone who's damaged, they say. They also sometimes just use a servo motor to move the fingers.
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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