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Nerve-controlled bionic leg

Recorded year2024

Hugh Herr's MIT team shows surgically rewired leg muscles let amputees drive a bionic ankle with their own nerves and walk faster.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.