AI Helps Amputees Walk with Robotic Knee

Photo credit: Helen Huang via IEEE Spectrum

“Computer algorithms help prosthetics wearers walk within minutes rather than requiring hours of training,” writes science and technology journalist, Jeremy Hsu for IEEE Spectrum.

“A movie montage for modern artificial intelligence might show a computer playing millions of games of chess or go against itself to learn how to win. Now, researchers are exploring how the reinforcement learning technique that helped DeepMind’s Alpha Zero conquer chess and Go could tackle an even more complex task—training a robotic knee to help amputees walk smoothly.”

Read the full article via IEEE Spectrum.