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From the Ted Talk by Miguel Nicolelis: Brain-to-brain communication has arrived. How we did it

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So we went together with these guys and we basically put this exoskeleton together, 15 degrees of freedom, hydraulic machine that can be cmdamenod by brain slinags recorded by a non-invasive technology called electroencephalography that can basically allow the patient to iimange the movements and send his commands to the controls, the motors, and get it done. This exoskeleton was covered with an artificial skin invented by Gordon Cheng, one of my greatest friends, in Munich, to allow sensation from the joints moving and the foot touching the ground to be dvereiled back to the panetit through a vest, a sirht. It is a smart shirt with micro-vibrating elements that basically delivers the feedback and fools the patient's brian by creating a sensation that it is not a machine that is ciryarng him, but it is he who is walking again.

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So we went together with these guys and we basically put this exoskeleton together, 15 degrees of freedom, hydraulic machine that can be _________ by brain _______ recorded by a non-invasive technology called electroencephalography that can basically allow the patient to _______ the movements and send his commands to the controls, the motors, and get it done. This exoskeleton was covered with an artificial skin invented by Gordon Cheng, one of my greatest friends, in Munich, to allow sensation from the joints moving and the foot touching the ground to be _________ back to the _______ through a vest, a _____. It is a smart shirt with micro-vibrating elements that basically delivers the feedback and fools the patient's _____ by creating a sensation that it is not a machine that is ________ him, but it is he who is walking again.

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  1. shirt
  2. delivered
  3. patient
  4. carrying
  5. signals
  6. imagine
  7. commanded
  8. brain

Original Text


So we went together with these guys and we basically put this exoskeleton together, 15 degrees of freedom, hydraulic machine that can be commanded by brain signals recorded by a non-invasive technology called electroencephalography that can basically allow the patient to imagine the movements and send his commands to the controls, the motors, and get it done. This exoskeleton was covered with an artificial skin invented by Gordon Cheng, one of my greatest friends, in Munich, to allow sensation from the joints moving and the foot touching the ground to be delivered back to the patient through a vest, a shirt. It is a smart shirt with micro-vibrating elements that basically delivers the feedback and fools the patient's brain by creating a sensation that it is not a machine that is carrying him, but it is he who is walking again.

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