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Home Click Here for the CNBC News Archives Woman With Quadriplegia Feeds Herself Chocolate Using Mind-Controlled Robot Arm
Woman With Quadriplegia Feeds Herself Chocolate Using Mind-Controlled Robot Arm

Dec. 17, 2012 — Reaching out to "high five" someone, grasping and moving objects of different shapes and sizes, feeding herself dark chocolate. For Jan Scheuermann and a team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC, accomplishing these seemingly ordinary tasks demonstrated for the first time that a person with longstanding quadriplegia can maneuver a mind-controlled, human-like robot arm in seven dimensions (7D) to consistently perform many of the natural and complex motions of everyday life.

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