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01-07-2003, 12:13 PM
Reported January 7, 2003
Restoring Movement to Muscles
Jan. 7, 2003 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers from the Neurobiotics Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University say they hope to one day enhance movement for people who have lost their muscle or limb control.
The research, led by Yoky Matsuoka, Ph.D., is currently centered on a wearable human-robot controller. The idea behind the control is to help people who have lost their ability to control movements because of injury or disease as well as provide an individualized form of therapy and create a prosthetic with dexterity similar to that of the lost limb. One device under development transfers sensory input to an impaired hand to assist people with poor grasping dexterity.
Matsuoka and colleagues are also constructing an anatomically correct robot hand that functions like a human hand. Their research aims to build robots as a way to understand more about how the brain controls the body.
SOURCE: Ivanhoe Health Correspondent Liz Rosenblum's Interview with Yoky Matsuoka, Ph.D.
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=5162
Restoring Movement to Muscles
Jan. 7, 2003 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers from the Neurobiotics Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University say they hope to one day enhance movement for people who have lost their muscle or limb control.
The research, led by Yoky Matsuoka, Ph.D., is currently centered on a wearable human-robot controller. The idea behind the control is to help people who have lost their ability to control movements because of injury or disease as well as provide an individualized form of therapy and create a prosthetic with dexterity similar to that of the lost limb. One device under development transfers sensory input to an impaired hand to assist people with poor grasping dexterity.
Matsuoka and colleagues are also constructing an anatomically correct robot hand that functions like a human hand. Their research aims to build robots as a way to understand more about how the brain controls the body.
SOURCE: Ivanhoe Health Correspondent Liz Rosenblum's Interview with Yoky Matsuoka, Ph.D.
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=5162