Ankur Handa Profile picture
Robotics Researcher @NvidiaAI. Previously, Researcher at @OpenAI

Aug 31, 2020, 7 tweets

Impressive and inspiring demos of brain implants in humans by BrainGate some time ago



braingate.org

paralyzed woman uses thoughts to sip coffee.

Kevin Warwick was brave enough to have an implant in his arm about 20 years ago and controlled a robot hand.

full video:

His Ted talk "Cyborgs: A Personal Story" is fun to watch

Baja Beach Club in Barcelona started offering chip implants to VIP customers for identification purposes around 2004. It didn't go well.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baja_Beac…

playing pong via chip implant

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