Robotic limb advances are attracting serious attention from the FDA.
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US regulators move on thought-controlled prosthetics
November 26, 2014 – 20:03
First Look At A Darpa-Funded Exoskeleton For Super Soldiers
November 3, 2014 – 22:34
An Iron Man-like solider suit is in development in Ekso Bionic’s workshop. Forbes’s Bruce Upbin gets the first look at what Ekso is building as part of the government’s Warrior Web project and tries out the experimental wearable robot for himself.
Paraplegic kicks off World Cup in exo-skeleton
October 30, 2014 – 13:45
A paraplegic man has made the first kick of the 2014 World Cup using a mind-controlled robotic exoskeleton. Juliano Pinto, a 29-year-old with complete paralysis of the lower trunk, performed the symbolic kick-off at the Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo.
Watch video: Multimedia Gallery – US National Science Foundation (NSF).
Breaking new ground in post-stroke rehabilitation
October 30, 2014 – 12:18
Current rehabilitation therapies are medieval, Krakauer, a professor of neurology and neuroscience at Hopkins, told the audience of science writers. “It’s time for a revolution.”
via National Geographic News: John Krakauer’s Stroke of Genius.
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