All Mark Pollock Blogs
My first piece of kit post-fall: the table my dad made
I had an unexpected rush of emotion this morning as I rolled into my kit room in Trinity College Dublin. Simone, my fiancée, hadn’t been in here for a while, and she said, “Oh, look! Your red table. I’d forgotten about your red table.” “Imagine,” she said, “There are three robots sitting up on your […]
8 years on from intensive care
Yesterday, 8 years ago, I fell from a second storey bedroom window onto the concrete below. I’m not sure how it happened, but I suspect I got up to go to the bathroom and, being blind, using my hand to feel my way, that night, my hand found an open space where the closed window […]
When humans and technology collide
Mark Pollock and Jonjo Bright discuss the experience of walking in Ekso Bionics robotic legs.
A 50 Subject Spinal Excitability Study
We completed 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.
An Irishman Abroad – Episode 211
During a conversation with Jarlath Regan on An Irishman Abroad, Mark talks about the extreme measures that he took to feel normal once again having become blind (12:00) to the wonderful tale of love and commitment between himself and his fiancée (30:00). From his outlining of the fascinating work that he does as a leading […]
Explaining the Research, Commercialisation & Investment Challenges
Mark is interviewed by award winning journalist, Matt Cooper, at Big ideas – a multi-disciplinary conference that empowers the front runners in research, to pitch their technology solutions and business propositions to the investment community. Mark speaks about the breakthrough technologies emerging from labs around the world and the barriers to making them available in […]