Brain chips could help paralysed patients move limbs

PARALYSED patients could soon be usingimplanted brain transmitters to operate bionic limbs, it was revealed yesterday.

British engineers aredeveloping the technology, which employs tinymicrochips to sense nerve messages, decode the signals, and turn thought into movement.

They hope within five years to be offering patients with damaged spinal cords robotic devices that willenable them to move their arms or legs at will.