Health and Healthcare

This neural implant could radically improve the lives of disabled people

An employee stands on a wheelchair developed by Israeli company UPnRIDE Robotics, tthat enables paralysed people with limited function in their arms to stand upright, during a demonstration at their offices in Yoqneam, Israel September 6, 2016. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - D1BEUAWLOEAA

The Stentrode, a neural implant can let paralyzed people communicate. Image: REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Dan Robitzski
Journalist, Futurism
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