Apr 16, 2026 | UC Irvine News

UC Irvine-led Study Achieves Brain-Controlled Walking with Artificial Sensory Feedback

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, Caltech and Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a bidirectional brain-computer interface that allows a person to control a robotic walking exoskeleton using brain signals and receive artificial leg sensation through direct electrical stimulation of the sensory cortex.