Neurorobotic hand exoskeleton restores grasp function to quadriplegics
From: Research in Germany - 12/07/2016

A consortium of European scientists has successfully restored grasp function
to six quadriplegics using a non-invasive hybrid brain-neural hand
exoskeleton. The system was developed by researchers at the University of
Tubingen, Germany, The BioRobotics Institute at the Scuola Superiore
Sant'Anna, Italy, and the Guttmann Institute in Spain. The study participants
were able, for example, to eat and drink independently at a restaurant. While
it was commonly assumed that outside-the-lab brain-machine interface (BMI) -
based restoration of hand function would require surgical implantation of
neural electrodes, the study - now featured in the inaugural issue of Science
Robotics - used electric brain activity recorded from the scalp, thus
avoiding any surgical procedure.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.research-in-germany.org/default/en/research-landscape/news/2016/12/2016-12-06-neurorobotic-hand-exoskeleton-restores-grasp-function-to-quadriplegics.html
https://www.uni-tuebingen.de/en/newsfullview-landingpage/article/neuro-robotik-ermoeglicht-querschnittsgelaehmten-selbststaendig-zu-essen.html

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