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Jan Scheuermann, who has quadriplegia, brings a chocolate bar to her mouth using a robot arm she is guiding with her thoughts. Research assistant Elke Brown, M.D., watches in the background. |
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Jan Scheuermann, who has quadriplegia, reaches with a thought-controlled robot arm for a chocolate bar held by research assistant Brian Wodlinger, Ph.D. |
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Jan Scheuermann, who has quadriplegia, gazes at the chocolate bar she intends to guide into her mouth with a thought-controlled robot arm. |
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Jan Scheuermann, who has quadriplegia, prepares to take a bite out of a chocolate bar she is guiding into her mouth with a thought-controlled robot arm while research assistant Brian Wodlinger, Ph.D., watches.
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Jan Scheuermann, who has quadriplegia, takes a bite out of a chocolate bar she has guided into her mouth with a thought-controlled robot arm. Research assistants Brian Wodlinger, Ph.D., and Elke Brown, M.D., watch in the background. |
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Researcher Andrew Schwartz, Ph.D., shakes Jan Scheuermann’s robot hand, which she calls Hector. |
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Researchers Andrew Schwartz, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara, M.D., Ph.D., talk with Jan Scheuermann. Research assistants John Downey (facing camera) and Brian Wodlinger, Ph.D., chat in the background. |
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Jan Scheuermann reaches out with the thought-controlled robot arm to touch the hand of researcher Jennifer Collinger, Ph.D. |
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Jan Scheuermann stacks cones with a mind-controlled robot arm. Research assistant Brian Wodlinger, Ph.D., watches her work. |
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Jan Scheuermann, 53, of Whitehall Borough, has quadriplegia for more than nine years and is participating in a trial testing brain computer interface technology that allows her to move a robot arm with her thoughts. |
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Jan Scheuermann stacks cones with a mind-controlled robot arm. |
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One Small Nibble, One Giant Bite; Woman Guides Robot Arm With Thoughts. |
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Study participant Tim Hemmes (right) reaching out to his researcher, Wei Wang, M.D., Ph.D. (left), using a brain-controlled prosthetic arm. Also pictured: Research team member Jennifer L. Collinger, Ph.D and Katie Schaffer. |
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Study participant Tim Hemmes (right) reaching out to his girlfriend, Katie Schaffer (left), using a brain-controlled prosthetic arm. Also pictured: Research team member Jennifer L. Collinger, Ph.D. |
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The prosthetic arm, designed by the John Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) and funded by the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Photo credit: DARPA and JHU/APL. |
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The study's co-principal investigator and UPMC Rehabilitation Institute director Michael Boninger, M.D., and Mr. Hemmes. |
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Mr. Hemmes' reaction to reaching out to touch hands with someone for the first time in seven years. |
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As part of testing, Mr. Hemmes willed the arm to reach for a ball placed onto specific areas of a board in front of him. |
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In addition to the arm testing, Mr. Hemmes used his thoughts to guide a ball from the middle of a large television screen either up, down, left or right to a target, within a time limit. |