There are 40 investigators at the University of Michigan interested in restorative neuroengineering. It's going to take the combined efforts of all these different fields to lick this problem, he says. "I'm all within with the physics. I'm all in with the astrophysics"
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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