- these devices are gonna make us more powerful, more independent. (angel gasps) - [angel] i wanna know what breakthroughs are being made. - it s aadio that captures your thoughts in real time. - i m improving the human body by implanting devices into it. - at will forge the future to- look ma i m a robot! the cyborg revolution. (spirited theme music) my name is angel giuffria, and i am a cyborg. a combination of human and machine that acts as one. i was born without part of my left arm, and i ve been wearing a prosthetic device as long as i can remember. they used to call me the bionic baby. this was my first ever multi-articulating hand. it was the big jump from this one grip pattern, this tripod, to being able to change the grip. when i flex the muscles, lets you move the hand. as my arm muscles move, they affect two electrodes resting on my skin, which allows me to control my bionic hand. four years ago, i gomy cuent prosthetic hand and it s been a real game changer. it g
matt was able to control a computer cursor directly with his mind. - so the whole idea of a brain computer interface is to help a person who is paralyzed to be able to move again, or be able to communicate or interact with the world. - open. - [angel] john achievethis breakthrough by using computers to read the brain signals insideatt s skull. the first technology to do this was developed in the 1920s by german psychiatrist, hans berger. he invented an instrument he called the electrncephalogram, or eeg. the device measures the brn s electral activity through the skul and represents it as complicated linesn a graph. however, decoding these brainwave patterns is an immense challenge, especially when the goal is to control complex movement. - imagine that those signals coming from your hand to control that were not coming from your hand, but from your brain. and now you don t know what makes your brain cells active, so how can you relate what your brain cells are doing to that
- these devices are gonna make us more powerful, more independent. (angel gasps) - [angel] i wanna know what breakthroughs are being made. - it s aadio that captures your thoughts in real time. - i m improving the human body by implanting devices into it. that will forge the future to- look ma i m a robot! the cyborg revolution. (spirited theme music) my name is angel giuffria, and i am a cyborg. a combination of human and machine that acts as one. i was born without part of my left arm, and i ve been wearing a prosthetic device as long as i can remember. they used to call me the bionic baby. this was my first ever multi-articulating hand. it was the big jump from this one grip pattern, this tripod, to being able to change the grip. when i flex the muscles, lets you move the hand. as my arm muscles move, they affect two electrodes resting on my skin, which allows me to control my bionic hand. four years ago, i t my rrent prosthetic hand and it s been a real game changer. it g
- these devices are gonna make us more powerful, more independent. (angel gasps) - [angel] i wanna know what breakthroughs are being made. - it s aadio that captures your thoughts in real time. - i m improving the human body by implanting devices into it. that will forge the future to- look ma i m a robot! the cyborg revolution. (spirited theme music) my name is angel giuffria, and i am a cyborg. a combination of human and machine that acts as one. i was born without part of my left arm, and i ve been wearing a prosthetic device as long as i can remember. they used to call me the bionic baby. this was my first ever multi-articulating hand. it was the big jump from this one grip pattern, this tripod, to being able to change the grip. when i flex the muscles, lets you move the hand. as my arm muscles move, they affect two electrodes resting on my skin, which allows me to control my bionic hand. four years ago, i t my rrent prosthetic hand and it s been a real game changer. it g