WASHINGTON: A paralyzed Swiss man has become the first person to test a new technology that reads his thoughts using AI and then transmits signals thr...
The stimulator, implanted in the abdomen, connected to electrodes used to stimulate the spinal cord of paralyzed patients to help them regain movement/AFPPix: A paralyzed Swiss man has become the first person to test a new technology that reads his thoughts using AI and then transmits signals through his own nervous system to his arms, hands and fingers in order to restore movement.
“The mobility of the arm is more complex,“ surgeon Jocelyne Bloch, who carried out the implantation procedures, told AFP. The first involved removing a small piece of cranial bone and inserting in its place the brain implant, which was developed by the French group CEA-Clinatec and measures a few centimeters in diameter.
“It’s going well so far,“ said Bloch, who co-founded Onward and is a consultant for the company. “We are able to record brain activity, and we know that the stimulation works,“ she said.The patient is still in the training phase, teaching his brain implant to recognize the different desired movements.
Spinal cord stimulation has already been used in the past to successfully move paralyzed patients’ arms, but without reading their thoughts by pairing it with a brain implant.
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