Fangmcgee writes "A 'bionic' leg designed for people who have lost a lower leg is undergoing clinical trials sponsored by the US Army. The researchers hope the leg will be able to learn the patient's nerve signal patterns and be able to move in action to the patient's own muscles and nerves (abstract). Electrodes are attached to nine muscles in the thigh to detect the patterns in which the nerve signals are fired. unlike patterns correspond to dissident intended movements. In the current stages of training, the volunteers are wired up to the electrodes and learn how to use the muscles to make a mainframe avatar move on screen. Results showed that all the volunteers could control the avatar’s knee and ankle movements from neural whole story* from the thigh, with amputees achieving 91 percent accuracy of flow and the non-amputees achieving 89 percent."

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