We’ve developed technology where we can implant an array of micro-electrodes in the cerebral cortex of monkeys and we can record activity from many neurons in the brain simultaneously, and from that signal we can extract the monkey’s intention to move its arm. Now that we have that, we can intercept that signal and use it instead of moving the monkey’s own arm to move a prosthetic on what it takes two people is a large team, so we’ve basically been somewhat isolated in our laboratory working on monkeys proving the technology, just making discoveries, validating the technology, developing new ways of doing this, and what we’ve been able to do recently is pass a lot of this knowledge that we’ve gained to clinical colleagues. – Dr. Charles Morgan
