Three men who experienced lower body paralysis from a spinal cord injury were able to walk, cycle and swim using a nerve stimulation device controlled by a touchscreen tablet. Patients aged 29, 32 and 41 were previously injured in motorcycle accidents.
Patients were able to take their first steps within an hour after neurosurgeons had implanted prototypes of a nerve stimulation device remotely controlled by artificial intelligence software. The researchers say that during the next six months, these patients will significantly increase their range of motor activity through nerve stimulation control.
Grégoire Courtine and Jocelyne Bloch from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne are committed to founding a Dutch technology company called Onward Medical, which is working on commercializing a s...
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