Reaching out to high five someone, grasping and moving
objects of different shapes and sizes, feeding herself dark chocolate. For Jan
Scheuermann and a team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School
of Medicine and UPMC, accomplishing these seemingly ordinary tasks demonstrated
for the first time that a person with longstanding quadriplegia can maneuver a
mind-controlled, human-like robot arm in seven dimensions (7D) to consistently
perform many of the natural and complex motions of everyday life.