Dr. Cindy Chestek is associate chair for research in biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan, where she runs a neural prosthetics lab. Dr. Parag Patil is an associate professor of neurosurgery, neurology, anesthesiology and biomedical engineering who focuses on movement disorders. The pair will talk about how they came to be interested in this subject.
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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