Category Archives: In The News

Prosthetic Hand ‘Tells’ the Brain what it is Touching By Carina Storrs for CNN 16 September 2015 WASHINGTON (CNN) — Research on prosthetic hands has come a long way, but most of it has focused on improving the way the body controls the device. Now, it may also be possible for prosthetic hands to send…

New Prosthetic Arm Can Restore Lost Sense of Touch, DARPA Claims By Rachel Feltman for The Washington Post 15 September 2015 The limb, developed by Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at Johns Hopkins University. (DARPA) The latest mind-controlled, robotic arm can send sensations of touch directly to the user’s brain, according to reports from the US…

Thought-Controlled Prosthesis Offers More ‘Tap Precision’ By Tom Abate for Stanford News 03 August 2015 Years of work have yielded a technique that continuously corrects brain readings to give people with spinal cord injuries a more precise way to tap out commands by using a thought-controlled cursor. A pilot clinical trial for human use is…

How Your Brain Remembers Where You Parked The Car By Jon Hamilton for NPR  1 July 2015 David Williams/Illustration Works/Corbis If you run into an old friend at the train station, your brain will probably form a memory of the experience. And that memory will forever link the person you saw with the place where you…

The Strength of Utah Tech By EDCUtah for UtahPolicy.com  30 June 2015 Utah is often noted for the strength of its high-tech sector and the “Silicon Slopes” that have produced phenomenally successful companies like Omniture (now Adobe), Instructure, Qualtrics, Ancestry.com, Vivint and many others. But the state’s high-tech sector also includes amazing companies like Blackrock…

Pentagon Gambles on Brain Implants, Bionic Limbs and Combat Exoskeletons By Sara Reardon for Nature magazine 12 June 2015 DARPA makes a big push into biological research, but some scientists question whether its high-risk approach can work An exoskeleton designed through DARPA’s Warrior Web programme enhances soldiers’ physical abilities. Credit: DARPA When Geoffrey Ling talks…

Watch Paralyzed Man Move Robotic Arm with his Mind By Jessica Stoller-Conrad for Caltech 22 May 2015 “I joke around with the guys that I want to be able to drink my own beer—to be able to take a drink at my own pace, when I want to take a sip out of my beer…

Brain-Reading Implant Controls Arm By James Gallagher for BBC News 22 May 2015 A man has been able to control a robotic limb with a mind-reading chip implanted in his brain. It allowed Erik Sorto, from California, to sip a drink unaided for the first time in 10 years. The details, published in Science, reveal…

DARPA Dreams: Cortical Modems and Neural RAMplants for Restoring Active Memory By John Hewitt for Extreme Tech 28 April 2015 A compelling encore to inventing the Internet appears more elusive for DARPA with each passing day. But what if they could put the Internet in your brain? That might turn some heads. Before anyone gets…

In Brief: Robotics, Smart Textiles, Mental Remote Control, Electronic Implant By Célia Sampol for MedicalExpo magazine 28 April 2015 PLUSES AND MINUSES OF USING ROBOTICS IN GENERAL SURGERY The European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) recently came to an important consensus on the use of robotics in general surgery. Its members first stated, among other…