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Editor’s note: This article comes from WeChat public account “Xin Zhi Yuan” (ID: AI_era) , Edit: Peng Fei.
[Introduction to Xinzhiyuan] Zhejiang University has announced the important scientific research results of the “Double Brain Project”, and the “Brain-Computer Interface” team of Qiushi Advanced Research Institute cooperated with the Department of Neurosurgery of Zhejiang University Medical College to complete domestic The first clinical study of implantable brain-computer interface. Patients can completely control the external robotic arm and manipulator to realize three-dimensional space movement by using the cerebral motor cortex signals. At the same time, it is the first time that elderly patients have used implantable brain-computer interface for complex and effective Feasibility of motion control.
In a room on the 16th floor of the Department of Functional Neurosurgery of Zhejiang University Second Hospital, a group of people are staring at an old man lying in a hospital bed. It looks not much different from the general treatment process, except for the computer screen in front of the patient. And a robotic arm.