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.

[royprincipe]

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

[jaqhass]

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

[nikwaggoner]

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