> Michael Straight, a former jockey paralyzed from the waist down, was left unable to walk for two months after the company behind his $100,000 exoskeleton refused to fix a battery issue, as reported earlier by the Paulick Report and 404 Media. “I called [the company] thinking it was no big deal, yet I was told they stopped working on any machine that was 5 years or older,” Straight wrote on Facebook, referring to a wiring problem in the watch he wears to operate the machine.
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Ok, the rerouting of nerves to muscle grafts is the most interesting thing here and possibly the game changer. The main problem of having neural control of prosthetics hasn’t really been the technology per se but the neurotoxicity of nerve – electrode interfaces. Rerouting nerves to muscle grafts and then recording electromyography of the muscles grafts has got potential.
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Sound great, but I wonder what safeguards there will be to prevent [this](https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255074/former-jockey-michael-straight-exoskeleton-repair-battery#:~:text=Michael%20Straight%2C%20a%20former%20jockey,Paulick%20Report%20and%20404%20Media) from happening.
> Michael Straight, a former jockey paralyzed from the waist down, was left unable to walk for two months after the company behind his $100,000 exoskeleton refused to fix a battery issue, as reported earlier by the Paulick Report and 404 Media. “I called [the company] thinking it was no big deal, yet I was told they stopped working on any machine that was 5 years or older,” Straight wrote on Facebook, referring to a wiring problem in the watch he wears to operate the machine.
Ok, the rerouting of nerves to muscle grafts is the most interesting thing here and possibly the game changer. The main problem of having neural control of prosthetics hasn’t really been the technology per se but the neurotoxicity of nerve – electrode interfaces. Rerouting nerves to muscle grafts and then recording electromyography of the muscles grafts has got potential.