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How to make a brain perceive an exoskeleton as its new body

2013-08-30 20:28:09| Extremetech

Since claiming that he will build the robotic exoskeleton that enables a paraplegic to perform the opening kickoff during the next world cup, Miguel Nicolelis has been scrambling to make good on his self-imposed mandate. By all measures, he has logged several important advances en route to that goal this year alone. The latest offering from his lab at Duke provides an important link to how an exoskeleton will be incorporated at the cortical level, into the so-called body schema.

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