Researchers working for the EU Project EXTEND, in collaboration with the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), applied long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks to predict tremor signals using kinematic data recorded from patients with essential tremor. The proposed LSTM-based models
EXTEND Documentary Film – Teaser
The teaser of the EXTEND Documentary Film is now available. This documentary intends to connect the EU Project EXTEND with the needs, concerns and informational interests of society. As a kind of visual ethnography, it reflects all the technoscientific processes
EMG-based control of exoskeletons
From June 27th to June 30th 2022, researchers working for the EU Project EXTEND carried out experiments with incomplete spinal cord injury patients. In these experiments, real-time neural-based models were applied to control the exoskeleton Exo-H3 while patients walked, allowing
Experiments for the EXTEND Project
The final injectable implants developed by University Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and Fraunhofer-Institute for Biomedical Engineering (FhG-IBMT) were tested in humans for the first time. By using the EXTEND Bidirectional Hyper-Connected Neural Systems (BHNS) paradigm, we were able to perform muscle
Floating EMG sensors and stimulators wirelessly powered and operated by volume conduction for networked neuroprosthetics
Researchers working for the EU Project EXTEND developed semi-implantable devices and validated them in vitro and in vivo. These devices were designed to be used in acute human trials to demonstrate the Bidirectional Hyper-Connected Neural Systems paradigm: distributed networks of
Annual Meeting at Barcelona on March 24th, 2022
The Consortium had a very fruitful and productive Meeting at University Pompeu Fabra (UPF) premises (Barcelona, Spain), where we reviewed the work done in 2021 / beginning of 2022 and planned the next steps until the end of the project
PhD Thesis – Gold Dissemination prize
Our colleague Camila Rodrigues has been awarded one of the first three “Divulgación Oro” (Gold Dissemination) prizes in the Scientific Dissemination Contest “Yo Investigo, Yo soy CSIC” (I Investigate, I am CSIC). Her work has been done in the framework
Survey on the challenges towards the adoption of BCI technologies in rehabilitation.
The Institute of Philosophy (IFS) from CSIC presented the results of three in-depth interviews that were conducted with Spanish speaking individuals who had previously completed a survey as part of a larger, 3-country/language, survey on BCI perceptions. 11 out of
Experiments for the EXTEND Project at Gregorio Marañón Hospital
During the week of 26-30 July 2021, researchers from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Neural-Rehabilitation Group – CSIC (Madrid) and Gregorio Marañón Hospital (Madrid) performed experiments using state of the art intramuscular technology to validate in humans the use of high
Intramuscular EMG-driven Musculoskeletal Modelling: Towards Implanted Muscle Interfacing in Spinal Cord Injury Patients
EU EXTEND Projects researchers tested and compared the use of surface and intramuscular EMG measurements for the estimation of required joint torques using EMG driven modelling framework in healthy individuals and incomplete SCI patients. More info in the link: https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2021.3087137