Exoskeleton Gives Paraplegics Power to Walk
From: Medical Design Technology - 09/19/2016

The Univeristy of Houston's powered exoskeleton, which will be part of a
futuristic brain-machine robotics system, is a powered wearable robot that
allows those with lower-limb paraplegia to regain mobility without a walker
or cane.

The robot is controlled by noninvasive brain-machine interface systems, or
brain waves. The research lab is using a variety of machine learning
approaches to train the machine, a pioneering approach for controlling
lower-limb exoskeletons.

Compared to other exoskeletons, the UoH robot is designed to have a more
natural, even individually recognizable human gait, according to the
researchers. To deliver the experience, the wearable robot was provided with
six joints—one at each ankle, knee, and at the hip.

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Links:
Cybathlon
http://www.cybathlon.ethz.ch/en

Welcome to the Cyborg Olympics
http://www.nature.com/news/welcome-to-the-cyborg-olympics-1.20353

Jose Contreras-Vidal
http://www.ee.uh.edu/faculty/contreras-vidal

University of Houston Brain-Machine Interface Systems Team
https://www.facebook.com/UHBMIST