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Title: Man Walks With a Robotic Leg Controlled by His Brain
Post by: TechMan on October 01, 2013, 02:25:47 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3YgoYNgiMQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3YgoYNgiMQ)

A team led by biomedical engineer Levi Hargrove at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago in Illinois reported the breakthrough last week in the New England Journal of Medicine1, including a video that shows the man using the bionic leg to walk up stairs and down a ramp, and to kick a football.

The major advance is that the man does not have to use a remote-control switch or exaggerated muscle movements to tell the robotic leg to switch between types of movements, and he does not have to reposition the leg with his hands when seated, Hargrove says. Source (http://www.nature.com/news/rewired-nerves-control-robotic-leg-1.13818)

Read more at http://www.geeksaresexy.net/#VXa6pzXHDZhvoMrp.99
Title: Re: Man Walks With a Robotic Leg Controlled by His Brain
Post by: TommyGunn on October 01, 2013, 06:15:44 PM: And closer and closer we get .... and with Obamacare it WILL cost $6,000,000!!
Title: Re: Man Walks With a Robotic Leg Controlled by His Brain
Post by: SADShooter on October 01, 2013, 06:17:04 PM: Quote from: TommyGunn on October 01, 2013, 06:15:44 PM
And closer and closer we get .... and with Obamacare it WILL cost $6,000,000!!

Dr. Evil: "Six BILLION Dollars..."
Title: Re: Man Walks With a Robotic Leg Controlled by His Brain
Post by: Sergeant Bob on October 01, 2013, 07:14:09 PM: Quote from: TommyGunn on October 01, 2013, 06:15:44 PM
And closer and closer we get .... and with Obamacare it WILL cost $6,000,000!!

Wow, you must be old! Now how did I know that? ;) [ar15]
Title: Re: Man Walks With a Robotic Leg Controlled by His Brain
Post by: TommyGunn on October 02, 2013, 12:13:08 AM: Quote from: Sergeant Bob on October 01, 2013, 07:14:09 PM
Wow, you must be old! Now how did I know that? ;) [ar15]

Yeah ... I'm so old I also squeek when I walk. :P ;/
Title: Re: Man Walks With a Robotic Leg Controlled by His Brain
Post by: freakazoid on October 02, 2013, 12:33:54 AM: Gentlemen... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoLs0V8T5AA
Title: Re: Man Walks With a Robotic Leg Controlled by His Brain
Post by: RoadKingLarry on October 02, 2013, 12:53:27 AM: Getting pretty cool with stuff like that. I wonder at what we have now, what will 20 more years bring us? (assuming Obamacare doesn't stifle research too much)