All Mark Pollock Blogs
Stress testing the early designs of Ekso Bionics robotic legs
After walking for the first time in 2012, Mark went on to become the world’s leading test pilot of Ekso Bionics robotic legs. And, during the early years of walking, Mark worked with the Ekso Bionics team to stress test components for the next generation Ekso GT. Watch at https://www.markpollock.com/stress-testing-the-early-designs-of-ekso-bionics-robotic-legs/
Walking In Robotic Legs!
Yesterday I was rolling around Alcatraz in my wheelchair, today I entered the HQ of Ekso Bionics (www.eksobionics.com) to try and walk. I’m just south of San Francisco in the university town of Berkeley and I’m here to try out a robotic exoskeleton called Ekso. As I sat with the lead PT (physiotherapist) we talked […]
Recipient Of People Of The Year Award
At one of the highlights in the social calendar in 2012, a host of stars and well-known faces stepped out on the red carpet to applaud the People of the Year winners. Alongside, the Olympic gold medalist and World Champion boxer Katie Taylor, Mark was honoured with a People of the Year Award for his […]
Walk before you can run, crawl before you can walk
We’ve been back from Project Walk for nearly 3 months now and I’m balancing training in hospital with Project Walk training in my old university, Trinity College Dublin. I’m training between 12 and 18 hours per week at the moment and this video shows me getting right back to basics by trying to crawl: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9lIU_kVgF0&w=500&h=417] […]
Reading letters with my tongue
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDvDgysmKLs] Today, I tested a device called a Brainport. It allows blind people to perceive objects using a camera mounted on glasses which sends the image to an electrode held on the tongue. The tongue receives the pixels of the image as current which the brain sends to the visual cortex to decipher. Still at […]
Super squat videos from project walk
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKfuEvInPzs] The above video shows me trying squats at a walking frame, while the one below is me doing squats on a Total Gym. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtH0Z4Z93h4] Working my paralysed legs over the past four weeks has provoked a connection to my legs. The feelings are not normal but rather a general sense of my legs, a […]