BMI: the research that holds the key to hope for millions



 
BMI: the research that holds the key to hope for millions


<p>When monkeys in Carolina remotely operated a robotic arm 600 miles away at the leading Institute of Technology in Massachusetts in 2000, using only their brain signals, the internet experiment was hailed as "a historic moment; the start of something totally new". Eight years on, scientists have announced another huge step towards developing a "brain-machine interface", or BMI: research aimed ultimately at allowing paralysed patients to control the movement of prosthetic limbs.</p>

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News entry number 4966 added on May 30, 2008 in the Technology and IT category.

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