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Muscle Implants Could Allow Mind-Controlled Prosthetics—No Brain Surgery Required
Startup Phantom Neuro is building an implant that sits under the skin and which promises to give amputees more accurate control of electronic prosthetics.
In data shared exclusively with WIRED, 10 participants in a study conducted by Phantom used a wearable version of the company’s sensors to control a robotic arm already on the market, achieving an average accuracy of 93.8 percent across 11 hand and wrist gestures. “The rapidity of their ability to get those classification accuracies is huge,” says Paul Marasco, a neuroscientist at the Cleveland Clinic, who studies natural touch and movement for artificial limbs and isn’t involved with Phantom. Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink announced last month that it is launching a study to test whether its brain implant can allow participants to directly control a robotic arm.
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