When I was a kid I used to love playing sports with my grandpa, he was very athletic. Then one day I wake up and find out that he had a stroke and is paralyzed in one side of his body. He can no longer move his left arm and his left leg. He did therapy for a long time and tried to get feeling back but nothing worked.

 

This is where my innovation comes to play. I want to create a device that connects to the brain and the arm of a paralyzed person. They would wear some sort of device on their arm and either have a chip implanted in their brain or wear some sort of device on their head. I am hoping to link the chip to the device and when you think of moving your arm the device will react and lift up your arm. This would help paralyzed people move what they couldn’t move before.

 

Other healthcare services have been testing something similar to this but not exact. They are linking up minds to a third party robotic arm. So a paralyzed person will think and the robotic arm will do, it’s just not the person’s arm. I want to incorporate the robotic arm into the actual person’s arm.