Airicist
19th August 2019, 16:58
roam.caltech.edu (http://roam.caltech.edu)
Airicist
19th August 2019, 16:59
https://youtu.be/ggDvBOQffIM
RoAM: Robotic Assisted Mobility
Published on Aug 19, 2019
A new research effort at Caltech aims to help people walk again by combining exoskeletons with spinal stimulation.
This initiative, dubbed RoAM (Robotic Assisted Mobility), combines the research of two Caltech roboticists: Aaron Ames (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=11438), who creates the algorithms that enable walking by bipedal robots and translates these to govern the motion of exoskeletons and prostheses; and Joel Burdick (http://mce.caltech.edu/people/jburdick), whose transcutaneous spinal implants have already helped paraplegics in clinical trials to recover some leg function and, crucially, torso control.
Support for the initiative comes from Wandercraft, the Zeitlin Family Discovery Fund, and the Caltech Mechanical and Civil Engineering Big Idea Fund.