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Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots

Microorganisms move in challenging environments by periodic changes in body shape. In contrast, current artificial microrobots cannot actively deform, exhibiting at best passive bending under external fields. Here, by taking advantage of the wireless, scal ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Rehabilitative Soft Exoskeleton for Rodents

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Jamie Paik, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Joachim von Zitzewitz, Rubia van den Brand, Sophie Marie Marthe Wurth, Laetitia Danielle Philippine Baud, Juan Manuel Florez Marin, Manan Kishore Shah

Robotic exoskeletons provide programmable, consistent and controllable active therapeutic assistance to patients with neurological disorders. Here we introduce a prototype and preliminary experimental evaluation of a rehabilitative gait exoskeleton that en ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Long-Term Training with a Brain-Machine Interface-Based Gait Protocol Induces Partial Neurological Recovery in Paraplegic Patients

Hannes Bleuler, Solaiman Shokur, Simon Gallo, Miguel Nicolelis

Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) provide a new assistive strategy aimed at restoring mobility in severely paralyzed patients. Yet, no study in animals or in human subjects has indicated that long-term BMI training could induce any type of clinical recovery. ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Engagement of the Rat Hindlimb Motor Cortex across Natural Locomotor Behaviors

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Rubia van den Brand, Jacopo Rigosa, Lucia Florinda Friedli Wittler, Janine Beauparlant, Simone Ellen Joze Duis, Julie Kreider

Contrary to cats and primates, cortical contribution to hindlimb locomotor movements is not critical in rats. However, the importance of the motor cortex to regain locomotion after neurological disorders in rats suggests that cortical engagement in hindlim ...

Soc Neuroscience2016

Pharmacological stimulation to facilitate and restore standing and walking functions in spinal cord motor disorders

Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Pavel Musienko

The invention relates to the selective targeting of specific α2 adrenergic receptor subtypes for facilitating and also restoring standing and walking in a subject affected by spinal cord disorders, in particular spinal cord injury. In particular, the impro ...

2016

Impact of the Femoral Head Position on Moment Arms in Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Parametric Finite Element Study

Alexandre Terrier, Valérie Parvex

Background: Although the importance of accurate femoral reconstruction to achieve a good functional outcome is well documented, quantitative data on the effects of a displacement of the femoral center of rotation on moment arms are scarce. The purpose of t ...

Elsevier2016

Direction-Dependent Adaptation of Dynamic Gait Stability Following Waist-Pull Perturbations

Silvestro Micera

Balance recovery during an unexpected disturbance is a complex motor task, where part of the variability depends on the type of the perturbation itself. Despite of this, little is known to what extent adaptation mechanisms to repeated perturbations are dep ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Biped gait controller for large speed variations, combining reflexes and a central pattern generator in a neuromuscular model

Auke Ijspeert, Renaud Ronsse, Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot

Controllers based on neuromuscular models hold the promise of energy-efficient and human-like walkers. However, most of them rely on optimizations or cumbersome hand-tuning to find controller parameters which, in turn, are usually working for a specific ga ...

IEEE2015

Experimental validation of a bio-inspired controller for dynamic walking with a humanoid robot

Auke Ijspeert, Jesse van den Kieboom, Renaud Ronsse, Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot, Luca Colasanto, Allan Barrea

Bipedal walking with humanoid robots requires efficient real-time control. Nowadays, most bipedal robots require to ensure local stability at every instant in time, preventing them from achieving the impressive human walking skills. At the same time, bio-i ...

IEEE2015

Looking for “frequent walkers” among the resident population of Switzerland

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Derek Pierre Christie

Walking is the focus of increasing interest. However, the phenomenon of people who spontaneously walk great distances has not been investigated. Here, we analyse quantitative data from the Swiss transport micro-census (MRMT2010), containing information fro ...

2015

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