Neural prosthetics: Krishna Shenoy at TEDxStanford

Krishna Shenoy helps to restore lost function for disabled patients by designing prosthetic devices that can translate neural brain activity.
Krishna Shenoy directs the Neural Prosthetic Systems Lab, where his group conducts neuroscience and neuro-engineering research to better understand how the brain controls movement and to design medical systems to assist those with movement disabilities. Shenoy also co-directs the Neural Prosthetics Translational Lab, which uses these advances to help people with severe motor disabilities. Shenoy received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from UC-Irvine and his master's and doctoral degrees in the same field from MIT. He was a neurobiology postdoctoral fellow at Caltech in Pasadena and then joined Stanford University, where he is a professor of electrical engineering, bioengineering and neurobiology.

[@royprincipe4590]

I love how the way he uses his words that my 17 year old self can understand.

[@mukil_saravanan]

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein

[@lucascagle4063]

There are many benifits to this and many cons to this technology the cons are absolutely mind blowing and sickning applications to this field of tech on the other hand theres all this great stuff this guy is mentioning. Bottom line any companies that wants to hold their own in the future will have to look into this tech and coms countermeasures

[@MrPorkistan786]

so in future we will have options to buy capabilities

[@jaqhass]

"your ear has detected a politicly dangerous conversation, please stay where you are"

[@flingstonegummy9334]

Eventually this will be a thing.

[@nikwaggoner2480]

What will be sad as all hell is there will be a huge paygate for these and only the very wealthy will benefit for a good 20~40 years, though they are still quite amazing

[@danielscott6334]

Nik Waggoner Why is that sad? Without the rich paying obscene amounts of money for these devices, the research would never get done to make them cheaper and more accessible to the general public. I'll never understand people. SMH

[@shaunbartlett1800]

Your both wrong in Western Australia we have an event called Telethon raising money for Princes Margret Children's Hospital raising over $20 million each year not only at the cutting edge but pushed by a population of 2 million people

[@ege8240]

@@danielscott6334 if there werent rich people, we wouldnt need funding to create projects... money is just a concept.

[@MrAbi1998]

wait but why