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Exoskeleton boots improve on evolution
April 1, 2015 – 17:35
Monkeys Steer Wheelchairs With Their Brains
February 4, 2015 – 20:12
A rhesus macaque walks with the aid of a pneumatically powered exoskeleton controlled by a computer reading signals from electrodes implanted in the monkey’s motor cortex. Miguel Nicolelis and colleagues at Duke University are developing similar devices that could allow paralyzed humans to walk again.
Monkeys Steer Wheelchairs With Their Brains, Raising Hope for Paralyzed People.
First Look At A Darpa-Funded Exoskeleton For Super Soldiers
November 3, 2014 – 22:34
An Iron Man-like solider suit is in development in Ekso Bionic’s workshop. Forbes’s Bruce Upbin gets the first look at what Ekso is building as part of the government’s Warrior Web project and tries out the experimental wearable robot for himself.
Paraplegic kicks off World Cup in exo-skeleton
October 30, 2014 – 13:45
A paraplegic man has made the first kick of the 2014 World Cup using a mind-controlled robotic exoskeleton. Juliano Pinto, a 29-year-old with complete paralysis of the lower trunk, performed the symbolic kick-off at the Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo.
Watch video: Multimedia Gallery – US National Science Foundation (NSF).
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