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July 14, 2011 02:05 pm

NSF Funds Mind-machine Interface Center

An anonymous reader writes "The National Science Foundation today announced an $18.5 million grant to establish an Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering based at the University of Washington. "The center will work on robotic devices that interact with, assist and understand the nervous system," said director Yoky Matsuoka. "It will combine advances in robotics, neuroscience, electromechanical devices and computer science to restore or augment the body's ability for sensation and movement." Steve Austin, anyone?"

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