Pahrog: The idea is to take that sensation of a phantom limb and make it the actual limb. And if you get that right, they can use it the very first time they pick it up. But it won't be over there yet, but that's the goal. Pahrog: What we hope to do is reanimate the hand and the arm so that the person, the paralyzed, the paralyzed hand, the paralyzed.
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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