Credit: Ganguly Lab/UCSF/Noah Berger/Cover Images Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have enabled a paralysed man to regularly control a robotic arm using signals from his ...
He was able to grasp, move, and release objects simply by imagining himself performing the actions. The device, known as a brain-computer interface (BCI), functioned successfully for a record seven ...
Soon, a flexible octopus-like robot could be completely free of wires or internal electronics. Engineers at Rice University have unveiled a new soft robotic arm controlled by laser beams.