In 2022, people with limb paralysis or amputations can restore some of their movement with the aid of prosthetics. What if you could hook up a human brain interface and then found a way to record neural signals and decode them to learn our very own neural language? It's been done. Ah, this would enable Chuck, a prosthetic user to control ever more complex movements just by thinking in a brain machine interfaces. And that place is exactly where we are headed in this show.
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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