A group around Yukio NISHIMURA from the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, succeeded to install a computer-based artificial neural connection (ANC) tot he lumbar locomotor center, controlling walking, which bypasses the spinal cord. The system was successfully tested with human volunteers.
JST news release, August 14, 2014
Interdisciplinary team succeeds to control leg movement without assistance of spinal cord, directed towards patients with spinal cord injury