Special Suit, BCI, Duke U., M. Nicolelis
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Christopher Reeves dream comes alive.
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As we have reported in the past, the full body robotic suit that helped Pinto kick the ball was created by the Walk Again Project, an international collaborative effort involving 150 researchers led by the Brazilian neuroscientist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, now based at Duke University.
The suit is built with lightweight metals and powered by hydraulics. The exoskeleton-like machine allows the wearer to move by simply thinking about moving. This technology could one day take the place of wheelchairs.
“The patient imagines that he wants to move, to walk. This is detected by sensors and sent to a computer which interprets this information and sends info to the exoskeleton,” Nicolelis told theWashington Post.
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