Amputees control bionic legs with their thoughts
From: Reuters - 05/20/2015
By: Amy Pollock

Amputees can control their bionic prosthetic limbs with their minds, thanks
to tiny implanted myoelectric sensors (IMES) developed by Icelandic
orthopedics company Ossur and surgically placed in a patient's residual
muscle tissue.

Ossur implanted tiny sensors in the residual muscle tissue of two amputees
that they say trigger movement in the prosthesis via a receiver. Ossur
President & CEO Jon Sigurdsson was due to announce in Copenhagen on May 20th
that the two amputees are the first world-wide to be able to control their
lower-limb prostheses subconsciously.

Read the entire article an view a video (2:08) at:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/20/us-iceland-mind-controlled-limb-idUSKBN0O51EQ20150520

Link:
Ossur
http://www.ossur.com/americas