AI Can Help Patients Recover Ability to Stand and Walk
From: IEEE Spectrum - 07/19/2017
By:  Charles Q. Choi

Artificial intelligence software combined with a robotic harness could help
spinal injury and stroke patients walk again. Clinical trials are underway.

Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne developed a
robotic harness that uses cables to control the amount of upward and forward
force that patients feel while also permitting them to walk forwards,
backwards, and side to side. This robotic harness was controlled by software
that personalized the multidirectional forces that each patient experienced
depending on their specific problems.

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http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/ai-can-help-patients-recover-ability-to-stand-and-walk

Links:
Motekforce Link
https://www.motekforcelink.com

G-Therapeutics
https://www.gtherapeutics.com

Related:
Soft Robotic Exosuit Can Help Stroke Patients
http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/soft-robotic-exosuit-can-help-stroke-patients

Paraplegic Patient Tests a Medical Exoskeleton
http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/biomedical/devices/paraplegic-patient-tests-a-medical-exoskeleton

Machine Restores Mobility to the Partially Paralyzed
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/machine-restores-mobility-to-the-partially-paralyzed