Following neurological injury, the use of physical therapy to restore function is a grueling process that is all too often met with minimal gains and quickly reached plateaus. The use of robotic devices should provide the patient with an accurate, repeatable, customizable training environment. Unfortunately, many of the most popular robotic gait training devices do not produce the fantastic results we all hoped. Our laboratory focuses on using novel robotic training (asymmetric steps, exaggerated patterns, non-uniform viscous fields, etc.) to restore locomotion in rat models of spinal cord injury. With sophisticated computational analysis of gait, and advanced MRI techniques, we aim to optimize robotic gait training and translate these findings directly to the PT clinic.