In a typical laboratory at the University of Michigan, Joseph Hamilton of Flint also does the usual thing: he grabs a shiny ball and a bottle; He pushes buttons and piles small pebbles; He zips up and removes. Well, Hamilton with a robotic arm - Ã It's normal if La Luke is not an expander doing all this with Skywalker with and he is not a test subject for a major improvement in robotic limb control. "That's great," Hamilton says of his test run by the robot. "If it's something I can access for everyday use, it makes life easier." Up to this point, researchers have been able to control the amplifier on the robotic arm by measuring the neural activity of the remaining organs. The signal is extremely faint, and as a result, the prostate gland can be controlled. But in today's journal of translation medicine, researchers describe a clever way to expand this code for users like Hamilton. It is so effective that participants can put the robot on their hands and get rid of good motor functions immediately, no training required.
All of this comes down to how patients' nerves regenerate. When a person loses, say, an arm below the elbow, all their nerves need to grow back to where they were before. Paul Cederna, a plastic surgeon at the University of Michigan, says: “Patients get this large nerve ball as a neuroma. "It can cause pain and prevent them from wearing their prostates and severely affect their quality of life."
But the tendency of nerves to grow is also a tactic with this new technology. Cedarna and his colleagues took small pieces of muscle and surgically wrapped them around the nerve endings of the remaining organs. Instead of spherical, neuromuscular tissue was found, which greatly increased their electrical activity. Think of it as building a megaphone for nerves. “So with this approach, we were not only able to treat the nerve endings to prevent nerve damage and nerve pain but at the same time,
we were able to take those small nodules and enlarge them. Those muscles. “They added electrodes to the muscles to detect the signals, which were 100 times more powerful than before they had grown into nerve muscles. By this point, the nerves were screaming straight.