Laboratory experiments

This was us operating in the laboratory and essentially my neural signals, you can see me move my hand and then some of the time. I have to say this is not like an American university video where everything works first time. This is a realistic video where things, you know, this is us in the lab and it works the first time operating as it was. So what you will see eventually is me moving my hand and then the robot hand with a short time delay operating as a result of my neural signals.

I’m now connected up to the lamp, so hopefully you can see the lamp in the background. So what I’m trying to do is use my neural signals to switch the lamp on. So this is my brain signal switching the lamp on. First time it doesn’t work, typically, which it never does when you want it to. Second time, ohhhh, there we go. So that’s neural signals switching a lamp on. And then when we want to switch it off again, there we go.

My neural signals now are being used to move the wheelchair around. I have to say we were working with the National Spinal Injury Centre and the Radcliff Infirmary trying to see on the one hand, could this implant be used for people who are paralysed, or people who have multiple sclerosis, all sorts of problem areas to allow them to operate technology and so on. So one of the things we were looking, people who have spinal injuries with an implant in their brain, could they use the implant to move wheelchairs around, to switch on lights, all sorts of things like that.

So what you just saw was a video of neural signals being used to drive a wheelchair around. So you don’t need to press a button or move a joy stick, but just use your, your brain signals effectively. Um, but it doesn’t have to be a wheelchair.