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General Misc => Robot Videos => Topic started by: Admin on August 27, 2008, 05:06:07 AM

Title: Robo-skeleton lets paraplegic walk
Post by: Admin on August 27, 2008, 05:06:07 AM

This exo-skeleton can be used by paraplegics (paralyzed from the waist down). You control it like a segway, leaning forward to go forward. The crutches are for balance. A wrist controller is used to select the desired gait.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7582240.stm

(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44960000/jpg/_44960647_rewalk282.jpg)

Title: Re: Robo-skeleton lets paraplegic walk
Post by: vidam on August 27, 2008, 02:30:55 PM

WOW! This is incredible! It seems so simple an idea. Why didn't anyone think of this before. DAMMIT! I missed an obvious robot invention that I could have made in honor of my since past Parapegic Grandpa...