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After training for months to harness brain signals to control a computer simulated avatar to perform basic movements before moving onto the robotic device, a paralysed man has walked again with help from a brain controlled exoskeleton in a breakthrough that may help tetraplegics in the future who are hoping to regain movement. Approximatley 20% …
3 men told they would never walk again are now able to once more thanks to doctors in Switzerland, clinical trial results as published in the journal Nature. Electrical devices developed by a team from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne were implanted around their spines to boost signals from their brains to their legs, and …