"For very simple things like going from thinking about your arm to actually moving your arm, it's a pretty straightforward system, and we know what the connections are, " Dr. Provencio said.

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The robot can detect the brain signal corresponding to a person thinking about moving an arm, and then move the arm.

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In a video, she is seen moving the robotic arm with fluid, elegant movements.

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Which is why moving from Intel to ARM may well be a very good idea.

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This machine, known as the Turk because of its exotic costume, could play chess, moving the pieces with a mechanical arm and defeating even the best human players.

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If an eye bulges or an arm stretches out in an unrealistic cartoonish way, other muscles react by moving along with it.

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He discovered that if a person who has long been paralyzed thinks "move my arm to the left, " the region in the brain responsible for moving arms--the motor cortex--fires away as if everything were connected.

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Merely moving a few feet to poke a rock could take three days, with the rover snapping pictures of its arm from every angle.

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