Icelandic orthopedics company Ossur has unveiled its mind-controlled prosthetic leg. In a small trial of the new system, researchers demonstrated that patients could control the robotic foot just like healthy people, simply by thinking about it.
It works through implanted myoelectric sensor (IMES) technology, where the sensors are inserted into the patient's limb muscles. They claim that this is the first prosthetic limb to use a sensor implanted directly into the limb without the need to transplant nerve tissue from another part of the body to make it work. After unveiling this latest technology at an event in Copenhagen, the company is preparing to start large-scale clinical trials, with the aim to initiate mass production within the next five years.
