First ‘plug and play’ brain prosthesis demoed in paralyzed person – Medical Xpress

In a significant advance, UC San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences researchers working towards a brain-controlled prosthetic limb have shown that machine learning techniques helped an individual with paralysis learn to control a computer cursor using their brain activity without requiring extensive daily retraining, which has been a requirement of all past brain-computer interface (BCI) efforts.
“The BCI field has made great progress in recent years, but because existing systems have …

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