Mind-controlled robot for paraplegics unveiled

Besides making paraplegics mobile, neuroprosthetics could be used to help
patients recover lost senses, researchers said.

Professor Stephanie Lacour and her team are working on an “electric skin”
for amputees, a glove fitted with tiny sensors that would send information
directly to the user’s nervous system.

Eventually, researchers say they hope to create mechanised prosthetics that
are as mobile and sensitive as a natural hand, Lacour said.

Other researchers at Lausanne are working on enabling paraplegics to walk
again with electrodes implanted in their spinal cords.

“The goal is that after a year of training with a robotic aide, the
patient will be able to walk without a robot. The electrodes would stay
implanted for life,” said Professor Gregoire Courtine.

He said he is currently setting up clinical trials and hopes to run tests at
Zurich’s university hospital within a year.

Source: AFP

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