POSTS TAGGED AS exoskeleton

Wearable Muscles

Wearable muscles offer an impressive upper-body endurance boost
“This “Myoshirt” from ETH Zurich is designed as a vest, with cuffs for [MORE]

A “KneeKG”

Patient with KneeKG
In imaging a knee problem, the patient having an x-ray or MRI is lying down.  The resulting picture [MORE]

Wearable Artificial Muscles

Soft Actuator
Many of the exoskeletons that have been designed for people with physical impairments look like Erector sets strapped to [MORE]

3-D Printed Exoskeletal Cast

Cortex
3-D printing continues to open new possibilities in health care—this one being a printed “exoskeleton” for setting broken bones.  [MORE]

Printed Prosthetics

3D Exoskeleton
In the past year, 3-D printing has brought several “firsts” in orthopedics, but this piece raises an interesting [MORE]

eLEGS for Paraplegics

eLEGS Demonstration
“eLEGS” stands for exoskeleton Lower Extremity Gait System, which, in effect, is an exoskeleton a paraplegic can wear.  [MORE]

Jacob Rosen Develops “Wearable” Robot

 
Jacob Rosen Demonstrated the Exoskeleton Robot
University of California at Santa Cruz engineer, Jacob Rosen, has developed a robotic “exoskeleton” that [MORE]