DARPA scientists build up mind-controlled prosthetic arm with the sense of touch.
Bensmaia is trying to reproduce touch by stimulating the brain to recreate how a human processes sensory information.
The monkeys responded to artificial contact in the same way they responded to actual contact.
Arrays were also placed on the volunteers motor cortex, which is responsible for facilitating body movements.
He responded in jest asking whether somebody was trying to play a trick on him.
That is when we knew that the feelings he was perceiving through the robotic hand were near-natural.
The experiment was described at the Wait, What?
A Future Technology Forum, hosted by DARPA in the US last week.
source: www.techworm.net
