Woman with Quadriplegia Feeds Herself Using Mind-Controlled Robot Arm | UPMC
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- All she wanted was chocolate. Jan Scheuermann contacted researchers and became part of a scientific breakthrough.
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I've been a high level quad [no use arms or legs] for 31 years. Jan - I can imagine the ecstatic joy you felt when you first fed yourself chocolate!! It must still be a blast. The hardest part would be relinquishing control of the arm back to the team. Wow - watching you blew my socks off and laugh with glee. Good on you and thank you.
So proud to be her cousin.
Thank you, Jan for your pioneering spirit, and you go girl!!!
This made me cry. Science is a beautiful thing.
I know this woman, or rather knew her. She's my ex's mother and she was a very kind, sweet person when I was around. I am so absolutely happy that she was/is able to do this and could take a bite of chocolate by herself. Science is great.
This is super cool! What a brave woman! This type of research need to get a lot of funding for the future!
Jan you are a beautiful person, I am sure a wonderful mother and wife and a true Neil Armstrong of medical frontiers. Your story is extraordinary and i for one will never forget you. What the medical team has done here is simply wonderful. My heartfelt compliments to all.
The robot arm moves graceful and beautifully like a woman’s arm. I've never seen that before.
perhaps this interface can become useful in teaching robots how to walk and do more things
Really wonderful, I think the next step is to extend this into a complete exoskeleton that can enable her and other people in her condition to move freely without any help from others.
What a lovely woman. Best of luck to you, Jan!
Dr. Boninger is wonderful.
Thank you David Sarrif!
That is amazing... We're getting closer to creating shells, prosthetic bodies. The amount of control she displays in this video is amazing. Not perfect, but if you think about it like this- she hasn't had control over an arm for long. Relearning something like that takes rehabilitation in normal cases. Here, you have the problem of trying to integrate something that isn't even biological! Invasive surgery is scary, especially when it comes to brain surgery. Jan is amazingly brave for doing this.
Wow, i will become Doctor Octopus !
Chocolate can be a powerful motivator! LOL Jan, Thank You For Your Service…
This is amazing progress and control. Great robotics too. I can't wait to see her control after a year or two. Can you get its so that she can see each of the receptors responses on a computer bar graph so she can then try to manipulate them each singularly or simultaneously or in patterns at will. Only she would be able to know what she did to control and replicate each receptor read out. Then decide what she wants to use those combinations or single receptor stimulation's to control.
That kind of a disease is tragic, but it's great to think that she can be a hero by participating in an important study like this!
The finest chocolate in the world...
Thanks, thanks for your job guys, thanks for hope, thanks. From all the humanity.
I'm so happy right now. I'm studying biology and when I see how science can improve someone's life I feel so moved :) I hope my future job would be as awsome as yours ♡
Ignis Vis you need biology and computer science knowledge to get a future job like this
Seek Jesus so your future can be good in eternity
Wow, amazing job!
Now if/when this gets perfected it must be great improvement in life for a lot of people. (obviously). Now if those currently developed "digital" nerves would be "hooked up" to the robotic arms, even tactile feedback could be given. That would be so amazing.
Well, we might look into a brighter future :)
And to those who are concerned about "mind control" or such: you can relax! These interface operate (to my knowledge) only in one direction, they basically just "receive" information but are unable to write any (correct me if I'm wrong).
Within the next 10-15 years this will all be more compartmentalized and efficient to a point where even people that were born with an inability to use their arms, legs or both, will be able to perform tasks that they could at first only dream of. This is where I love medical science and engineering.
This makes me tear up.
A perfect chance for all disabled people! And a very interesting example of what we can do with our brain (I'm curious whether it was connected to spinal cord or just to the brain)
This is amazing, and beautiful, and so moving
This is so amazing, and this technology is going to help so many people when it becomes accessible to the public,
When I watch her feed herself some chocolate. I don't even know what to say!! I am so proud of you sweet heart!! She is getting closer to her goal everyday. Let's find a way to bridge the gap between spinal cord inury and motor and nervous system function. Even external cable system that will allow communication between the systems.
This is amazing. It's unbelievable how fast technology is developing.
This is truly wonderful . GO SCIENCE !
Amazing progress in brain robotics control research
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This made me cry with joy. #Science & #technology are amazing.
They gave the world's most prolific serial killer BIONIC ARMS?!?!
amazing, great scientific accomplishment. The possibilities within my lifetime are immense.
This is the coolest thing ever.
love robotics, this is a great example why
the cables hooked to her head remind me of the matrixs, this is awesome.
can't stop smiling
It would be possible, but humanity needs more research for this.
LEGEND.
This is amazing jan! im so happy for you =)
Is it odd to cry over someone else's happiness? in a good way of course. watching this at first I was thinking "ok its another cool science thing!" but then. see her not be able to do ANYTHING for herself... and suddenly. be able to move an arm. the smile on her face. that joy. I was so damn happy for her I started to cry. I hope science can keep making amazing things like this.
Nice job! Thank you for your can do attitude and your willingness to try something totally new. You are amazing.
Now hook this up to an exoskeleton she can wear and she'll be controlling her own body again. Then she can train and muscles and nerves will be healthier. It won't fix her spine, but it will make her whole body healthier despite the spine not functioning completely. If we then later manage to implant a artificial nervous system on/into/next to her spine it will be much easier for the brain and body to learn it is connected again.
They are amazing. Continue working, the future depends on you.
thanks PEEJ !
I'm exited to see these with faster motors so they seem much more organic ( and I'm not sure why they don't have them already considering motor technology isn't new )
This truly is amazing. Id wish to all the disabled people to have this oportunity. One day in not that far future they will. One thing scares me on the other hand. How will we know somebody is just not stealing our thoughts, our passwords, our intentions right from our heads wireless?
tod4y Because it doesn't quite work like that, not yet at least. It's only a one-way connection. If this works like other, similar arms I've seen, then it's just a chip reading neurons in the part of her brain that controls motor functions, so it physically can't take thoughts.
MisterGunpowder I am not quite sure you are replying to my comment. You dont need to tell me how it works. And you have also answered my "question" as well. This reads brain electronic signals. Thus it is only a step to reading the mind itself. Theres not much of a difference between moving a hand and thinking of moving a hand (or of your password).
+tod4y It would take more CPU cycles to decipher what your password is than to transcribe limb control signals, especially if you're not actively thinking of the password. It would be easier to eavesdrop on the motion data you feed a prosthetic arm while typing, and it would be even easier to just bug your computer and keylog your password from it than to eavesdrop on your mind.
Also, most of the information gleaned from eavesdropping on a working brain would be hardware controller signals used by your grey matter to signal your nervous system to regulate all those automated functions your body performs without concious input. Filtering a password from that would require sifting through a gigantic pipeline of parallel signals, massive amounts of signals that blend into each other and requiring tremendous amounts of storage space to log all the signals and decipher them.
I expect it to take quite a long while before people can use your MMI cyborg link to rip memories from your head directly.
I was so excited when I saw this! Only 2 months ago I was writing about it as part of my degree and this is getting closer and closer to becoming a real possibility for disabled people, it's amazing. Let's just hope DARPA doesn't go and use this for evil just because they funded the research
Imagine controlling a robot with ur brain for the military this would be sick
Where is their Nobell prize and why do they not have it yet?
I was actually about to show this video to my mom as a way of explaining why I love skydiving and really won't stop it. That is, until I heard the words "not skydiving"... Absolutely awesome video none the less!
That is just awesome developments!
Sweet! Science kicks ass!
The only problem is that fully mechanical limbs, like a cyborg if you will, would require a power source. That's the only real problem with it, and it's a big one. Batteries are inefficient and heavy. These machines are connected to wall sockets for their power.
Fantastic. I guess the hardest trial will be the lidless cup of fresh McDonald's coffee.
With the development of brain-machine interface,I believe we will witness a technical revolution in many aspects in ten years.
This is awesome.
can't wait until losing an arm or a leg won't matter anymore
Amazing but still sad
The most beautiful woman in the world!
This is so cool!
Just wait until we see the advances where she can have robotic replacements to her limbs and use wireless controls to finally walk around again.
I can't imagine what will be possible in just 10 or 15 years.
This is just awesome
have ya'll considered using people who still have their limbs to record neural impulses? maybe with enough tests like that you can find similarities and make it faster for quads to learn, and learn more than ever possible otherwise.
This is so amazing.
So cool!
This is so awesome.
So amazing
This is the kind of job I want
Only just a bit creepy having those two thingies penetrating your skull.
This is amazingly great, but how long until MGS type scenarios where some evil amputee bust in with like super jacked up JAX from MK arms??
With this robot arm, I can flip the bird in your direction!
There may very well be new ways in generating power. But with nano materials, you never know what they might think of next!
I dont see why would people call it wrong even if they are religious; It doesn't make much sense. I'm a muslim, I try my best to be a religious person, and I think that this video is quite outstanding. Who said science and religion don't work together?
It has begun.....
amazing woman, amazing science!!
I came to see this because I read your r/IAmA.
Ok, my nightmares of full body transplant supersoldiers came a bit closer to reality. Next two decades will be a pretty wild ride.
next year we will have robot spiders with human heads
The future is near for robotic assisted humans.
i bet that bite of chocolate tasted pretty damn good
if they put electrodes into her muscles to stimulate them, maybe they could even do away with the robotic arm and use the real arm!?
Doug , This is the best idea because it all works with electricity., thank you
How could anyone dislike this? :')
This is great!!
amazing
It is amazing indeed
I'm going to feed myself chocolate before this is over too, you go girl.
That's just amazing
I`ve seen this same hand in Terminator II :/
its really great robot arm. my mum has lost her left arm during her childhood , can i ask how to get this arm and what is the price , if needed , i will take my mum to your univercity and get this .
thank you so much
Its based on 2 hard wired plugs.
Imagine when we have brain sensitive headsets we can put on without medical processes that learn our though patterns and translate them into signals
every brain has a different hologram pattern do every device is going to have to learn every person independently but this arm is like a Rosetta stone to translate the thought pasterns into mechanical action.
By the way, that's DARPA & John Hopkins Universirty Modrular Prosthetic Limb right? I was very amazed when I saw it for the first time in "Prophets of Science Fiction".
Olá essa tecnologia evoluiu 2023?
my apologies!
Amazing! But I have a question, Is this robot arm using the new man-machine interface algorithm ReFIT from Stanford?
Windows 95 chimes are so funny!
Cyberpunk 2020 might be coming a little bit later than expected, but we're getting there.
was thinking the exact same thing...maybe they just hit the wrong thumb?
that is amazing!
Many attempts have been made in trying to revolutionize batteries, but so far no luck. Storing energy is difficult.