Living with BCI - Nathan Copeland - #11
Nathan Copeland is the world's longest-running intracortical brain implant user — over 10 years, beating the previous record by nearly four years.
In 2004, at age 18, a car accident left him paralyzed from the chest down. In 2015, he volunteered to have four Utah Array electrodes implanted in his motor and sensory cortex at the University of Pittsburgh — becoming the first human in history to receive sensory cortex implants capable of transmitting touch signals back to the brain from a robotic arm. In 2016, he used that robotic arm to shake hands and fist bump President Obama.
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