Months after world’s first such surgery for quadriplegia, the traffic officer can stand and walk again with significant upper limb strength.

In the 1987 American action film RoboCop, protagonist Alex Murphy is a police officer in a dystopian 21st-century Detroit when he is mortally wounded and rebuilt by cybernetic enhancements so that he can keep fighting crime. Nearly 40 years on, a Chinese policeman and a team of doctors at Jilin University have turned what once seemed a highly futuristic treatment into an encouraging new reality. Recently, state broadcaster CCTV reported that the Second Hospital of Jilin University earlier this…

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