Foot for Thought: The Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Leg
From: Robotic Trends - 10/02/2013
By: Erika Check Hayden

Finally, a robotic leg that takes direction from the human brain is here.

A team led by biomedical engineer Levi Hargrove at the Rehabilitation
Institute of Chicago in Illinois reported the breakthrough last week in the
New England Journal of Medicine including a video that shows the man using
the bionic leg to walk up stairs and down a ramp, and to kick a football.

The major advance is that the man does not have to use a remote-control
switch or exaggerated muscle movements to tell the robotic leg to switch
between types of movements, and he does not have to reposition the leg with
his hands when seated.

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http://www.roboticstrends.com/service_healthcare/article/foot_for_thought_the_mind_controlled_prosthetic_leg

Links:
Robotic Leg Control with EMG Decoding in an Amputee with Nerve Transfers
http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1300126

Mind-controlled robot arms show promise
http://www.nature.com/news/mind-controlled-robot-arms-show-promise-1.10652

Man Walks with Aid of Brain-Controlled Robotic Legs (with video 0:57)
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/brain-controlled-robotic-legs

Man walks with a robotic leg controlled by his brain (video 0:49)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3YgoYNgiMQ&feature=youtu.be

Walking with the Mind 
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2013/10/photos-day-walking-mind

World’s First Thought-Controlled Bionic Leg Unveiled 
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2013/10/world%E2%80%99s-first-thought-controlled-bionic-leg-unveiled

First Thought-Controlled Bionic Leg: A Milestone for Amputees (video 4:01)
http://video.techbriefs.com/video/Worlds-First-Thought-Controlled;Sensors

World’s First Thought-Controlled Bionic Leg Unveiled by Rehabilitation
  Institute of Chicago
http://www.ric.org/about/mediacenter/search-press-releases/2013/first-thought-controlled-bionic-leg/