Aug 25, 2016
Robotic Brain Training Relieves Paralysis in Duke Study
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, computing, cyborgs, neuroscience, robotics/AI
Excellent! Super human capabilities at work via brain-controlled robotics.
Eight people who spent years paralyzed from spinal cord injuries have regained partial control of their lower limbs as well as some sensation following work with brain-controlled robotics. Five of the participants had been paralyzed for at least five years and two had been paralyzed for more than ten.
It took seven months of training before most of the subjects saw any changes. After a year, four patients’ sensation and muscle control changed significantly enough that doctors upgraded their diagnoses from complete to partial paralysis.
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