CHICAGO — The future of physical therapy. The traditional path to help patients regain movement after a stroke or spinal cord ...

From Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers to Marvel’s Iron Man, science fiction is full of futuristic combat suits that provides a soldier with superhuman capabilities. The largest challenge with ...

Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna, in collaboration with ETH Zurich, the Technical University of Munich and ...

More and more robots are assisting workers in factories. However, human-robot collaboration is still far from seamless. Researchers from Prof. Lorenzo Masia's team at the Technical University of ...

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Each year, nearly 800,000 Americans survive a stroke. For many, the journey to recovery includes relearning one of life's ...

As technology has drastically changed what modern workdays look like, more and more companies have opened to the use of exoskeletons. Some may still picture exoskeletons as something from a sci-fi ...

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According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, one in 10 construction site workers is injured every year, while 21percent of worker fatalities are in construction. Hoping to ...

Researchers have developed an exoskeleton system that provides personalized support for its user. In healthy volunteers, the optimized exoskeleton reduced energy expenditure during walking by 24 ...

In lab tests, researchers found that an optimized ankle exoskeleton system increased participants' walking speed by about 40 percent compared with their regular speed. The researchers hope someday to ...