Three Institutions Share Grant to Develop a "Bionic Suit" to Help SCI
  Patients Walk
From: Rehab Managament - 09/15/2017

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a 5-year, $8 million grant
to three California-based institutions to fund the development of a
brain-machine interface to help restore walking ability and lower extremity
sensation in spinal cord injury (SCI) patients.

The three institutions sharing the NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Frontier grant
- the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC),
University of California at Irvine (UCI), and Caltech - will work together to
develop the fully implantable interface, designed to transmit commands to a
robotic exoskeleton for walking that will, in turn, transmit sensory
information back to the brain, according to a media release from Keck School
of Medicine of USC.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.rehabpub.com/2017/09/three-institutions-share-grant-develop-bionic-suit-help-sci-patients-walk

Links:
NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Frontier grant
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1646636

Keck School of Medicine of USC
http://keck.usc.edu