{"id":16844,"date":"2015-09-03T01:46:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T08:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/completely-paralyzed-man-voluntarily-moves-his-legs-ucla-scientists-report"},"modified":"2015-09-03T01:46:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T08:46:29","slug":"completely-paralyzed-man-voluntarily-moves-his-legs-ucla-scientists-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/completely-paralyzed-man-voluntarily-moves-his-legs-ucla-scientists-report","title":{"rendered":"Completely paralyzed man voluntarily moves his legs, UCLA scientists report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tPej2l6dVbw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Pollock and trainer Simon O\u2019Donnell (credit: Mark Pollock)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A 39-year-old man who had been completely paralyzed for four years was able to voluntarily control his leg muscles and take thousands of steps in a \u201crobotic exoskeleton\u201d device during five days of training, and for two weeks afterward, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucla.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">UCLA<\/a> scientists report.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that a person with chronic, complete paralysis has regained enough voluntary control to actively work with a robotic device designed to enhance mobility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/completely-paralyzed-man-voluntarily-moves-his-legs-ucla-scientists-report\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Pollock and trainer Simon O\u2019Donnell (credit: Mark Pollock) A 39-year-old man who had been completely paralyzed for four years was able to voluntarily control his leg muscles and take thousands of steps in a \u201crobotic exoskeleton\u201d device during five days of training, and for two weeks afterward, UCLA scientists report. This is the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}