10/07/2011 PERMALINK
New project gets under way to allow your brain to directly control a robotic body. Leading research centers around the world have announce a new international consortium called The Walk Again Project for scientific collaboration to develop and implement the first Brain Machine Interface (BMI) capable of restoring full mobility to patients suffering from a severe degree of paralysis. This lofty goal will be achieved by building a neuroprosthetic device that uses a BMI as its core, allowing the patients to capture and use their own voluntary brain activity to control the movements of a full-body prosthetic device. This “wearable robot,” also known as an “exoskeleton,” will be designed to sustain and carry the patient’s body according to his or her mental will. Hopefully, they will decide to make all the results open source.