Restoring Mobility,
Rekindling Sensation
NerveRepack: Intelligent neural system
for bidirectional connection with exoprostheses and exoskeletons
NerveRepack will develop pioneering neural interfaces for enhanced mobility and sensations.
We propose the development of a new generation of bidirectional implantable electrodes connecting the human nervous system with external mechatronic aid devices such as exoskeletons and exoprostheses. The neural interfaces will help people with arm amputations or leg paralysis regain their motor and sensorial functions. This will lead to a new generation of prostheses controlled by the patient’s brain via the nervous system and will change the paradigm of support for people with disabilities.
The project is expected to have an important social, economic, medical, and technological impact, driving advances in miniaturization, wireless communication and power supply, progresses in medical microsurgery tools and methods, and new biocompatible materials.
Restore Mobility
Limb loss drastically decreases mobility. Our new prostheses and exoskeletons will allow amputees and patients with lower limb paralysis to move closer to how they did before.
Advancing Medical Technology
Bridging the gap between technology and biology is another aim of the project. We will advance both knowledge about the peripheral nervous system and how implants can interface with it.
Restoring Sensation
Current protheses allow some restoration of mobility, however those protheses do not feel as part of the body. We address this by aiming to match the sensations from the protheses to the patients's old neural pathways.
Improving
Quality of Life
This all aims to improve the lives of the often-overlooked amputees and paralyzed patients. By using our devices, we hope they regain the functionality they had before.
Our Impact in Numbers
4
Years
27
Partners
10
Countries
1 mil
Individuals impacted
3
Prototypes