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Berkeley Bionics™, designs and manufactures lower extremity exoskeletons to augment human strength and endurance during locomotion. Berkeley Bionics exoskeletons increase wearer's strength while decreasing their metabolic cost of walking. The company is also attacking the technological barriers to a practical, affordable exoskeleton for civilian and medical applications, particularly to assist patients with neurological or muscular mobility disorders. These powered human exoskeletons would allow their wearers to walk upright without the strain and muscular effort required by today's unpowered orthotic devices.

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Steve Holbert was paralyzed in a dirt bike accident in late 2009. His hope is to completely recover from his spinal cord injury and one day walk again. That's why he's agreed to participate in the research of Jose Luis "Pepe" Contreras-Vidal, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering and director of the Laboratory for Non-invasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems. Contreras-Vidal is working on a brain-machine interface (BMI) that would allow patients like Holbert to control prosthetic limbs through their own thoughts.

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One scientist never imagined a robot exoskeleton would help his brother walk.

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Science Now 33-In this week’s episode we learn about an app to detect depression, walking efficiency, how babies learn from surprise and finally we explore how high-tech tools are helping researcher better understand how granular materials like snow and sand behave.

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In this test footage, I demonstrate the humanoid robot Cyclops MK II being remote controlled by a wearable LEGO exoskeleton.

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The exoskeletons will be customized and designed to grow as the child grows, said Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering.

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Scientists working at Korea University, Korea, and TU Berlin, Germany have developed a brain-computer control interface for a lower limb exoskeleton by decoding specific signals from within the user's brain.

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(c) Korea University / TU Berlin

A lower limb exoskeleton control system based on steady state visual evoked potentials
No-Sang Kwak, Klaus-Robert Muller and Seong-Whan Lee
Journal of Neural Engineering doi:10.1088/1741-2560/12/5/056009

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Director Paul Giamatti gets a demonstration of the Fortis Exoskeleton, developed by Lockheed Martin.

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If you can't complete get the job done yourself, you need a giant robot suit. For this list, we are ranking the actual mechs operated by human or alien pilots and not the anime series the mechs are found in.

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Six people with spinal injuries have regained the ability to pick up objects thanks to an electrode cap and exoskeleton. Read more:

"Robotic hand exoskeleton lets quadriplegic people use cutlery"

by Timothy Revell
December 6, 2016

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They're super handy!

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"The Ascent Of The Robots" is a short documentary about three teams of scientists participating at "ART Safiental" in 2020.

Produced by Leon Riener in collaboration with ETH Zurich.

In summer 2020 participated several science teams of the ETH Zurich at the "Art Safiental" in the mountains of Graubunden. After the scientists packed their hiking gear and their robots, their only mission was "over hill and dale to the summit". How difficult will it be to reach the summit with a legged robot and an exoskeleton? What's the relation of synesthetic dance and robotic? How will the hikers react to these projects?

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Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a new approach in which robotic exosuit assistance can be calibrated to an individual and adapt to a variety of real-world walking tasks in a matter of seconds. The bioinspired system uses ultrasound measurements of muscle dynamics to develop a personalized and activity-specific assistance profile for users of the exosuit.

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