Independent Mobility Achieved through a Wireless Brain-Machine Interface.

ABSTRACT: Individuals with tetraplegia lack independent mobility, making them highly dependent on others to move from one place to another. Here, we describe how two macaques were able to use a wireless integrated system to control a robotic platform, over which they were sitting, to achieve independent mobility using the neuronal activity in their motor cortices. The activity of populations of single neurons was recorded using multiple electrode arrays implanted in the arm region of primary motor cortex, and decoded to achieve brain control of the platform. We found that free-running brain control of the platform (which was not equipped with any machine intelligence) was fast and accurate, resembling the performance achieved using joystick control. The decoding algorithms can be trained in the abse

SUBMITTER: Libedinsky C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5089763 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature