Algorithms Replace Spinal Cord

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Over years of eavesdropping on the brain with with electrodes, neuroscientists and engineers have decoded the neural patterns of intention in both humans and monkeys. Since then, most labs have plugged these diverted signals into robotic arms, proving that they can use the brain to remotely control sophisticated machinery while undoubtedly giving tremendous hope to people with severed limbs.
Until now, this research has largely ignored patients with spinal cord injury whose limbs are still there, but which no longer work because they no longer receive stimulation  more...