Restoring voluntary actions to paralysed patients is an ambition of neural-interface research. A study shows that people with tetraplegia can use brain control of a robotic arm to reach and grasp objects. See Letter p.372
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Jackson, A. Brain-controlled robot grabs attention. Nature 485, 317–318 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/485317a
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