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Specialists are testing smart garments powered by artificial intelligence (AI)called NeuroSkin, to enable disabled people to walk independently after a stroke.
This product costs $ 5,000 per month and was developed by the French company Kurage.
NeuroSkin works through electrostimulation of the user’s muscles, which is controlled by AI.
Equipped with sensors that run on machine learning models, these smart garments can replicate functional movements and adapt their activities to suit the wearer’s gait and movements.
”Smart clothes are like a second skin, meaning they have sensors that can feel how the brain works and it has all the sensory information to send to artificial intelligence systems,” he said BBC Rudi Gombauld, CEO of Kurage.
Julie Lloyd, 65, who was paralyzed on her left side in January after a minor stroke, is part of a UK trial of the rehabilitation device.
In the test, wearing NeuroSkin allowed him to walk on his paralyzed legs thanks to AI-controlled electrodes embedded in the pants that stimulate the leg muscles.
“(My feet) just popped out of the ground and made me feel safe walking, and that’s the part I honestly haven’t felt at all with all the physio I have,” he told BBC this patient, who was unable to walk after a stroke. (YO)
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