Exploring the intersection where humans & technology collide
Up to this point in history, it has proven to be impossible to find a cure for paralysis. But history is filled with accounts of the impossible made possible through human endeavour. The kind of human endeavour that took explorers to the South Pole at the start of the last century. And, the kind of human endeavour that will take adventurers to Mars in the early part of this century.
Inspired by those stories of exploration we started asking ourselves, “Why can’t that same human endeavor cure paralysis in our lifetime?” Now, we believe it can as we explore the intersection where humans and technology collide.
Take a look at some of our key milestones to date, as we explore the intersection where humans and technology collide.
Exploration milestones
Resolving The Tension Between Acceptance & Hope At TED2018
Mark and his fiancée, human rights lawyer Simone George, spoke at TED2018 in Vancouver about how to resolve the tension between acceptance and hope, something they had to try and figure out in the aftermath of Mark’s catastrophic spinal cord injury.
Amy Cuddy, whose TED talk about power posing earned her worldwide recognition and has over 47 million views, described Simone and Mark’s talk as “the most powerful, moving talk I have ever seen at TED” while TED curator Helen Walters described their talk as a “love letter to science”.
Exoskeleton Access Programme
We launched an Exoskeleton Access Programme at Dublin City University to provide universal access to Ekso Bionics robotic legs for paralysed people, stroke patients, those with MS and other neurological conditions for a nominal fee.
A 50 Subject Spinal Excitability Study
We complete a spinal cord excitability study in a group of 25 healthy subjects and 25 paralysed subjects in Trinity College Dublin to gather baseline data to feed into more complex research studies with multiple technologies.
