It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in a stadium is something very much outside our routine in robotics. It's never been done before.
Interpretation
This quote highlights a groundbreaking achievement in robotics through brain-computer interfaces.
Miguel Nicolelis emphasizes the transformative nature of using brain activity to control an exoskeleton, which not only represents a significant advancement in technology but also offers patients a new way to experience movement. The demonstration in a stadium symbolizes the unprecedented nature of this achievement in robotics, showcasing the potential for brain-machine integration to revolutionize rehabilitation and mobility for those with physical disabilities.
In practice
This quote can be used to inspire students in a tech presentation about advancements in robotics.
Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.
We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.
We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net. In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
Now anybody can make music at home, and you can hear music on any computer without having to buy it. Everything is apparently better with all the machines we have now, but at the same time, the quality of life is not improving.
We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place.
With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.
It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.
It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
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