Good-bye, Wheelchair, Hello Exoskeleton From: IEEE Spectrum - 01/2012 - page 30 By: Eliza Strickland This year, the Ekso Bionics exoskeleton for paraplegics hits the market A Berkeley, CA warehouse is the home of Ekso Bionics (formerly known as Berkeley Bionics), a young company that's about to step out onto the world stage. Early this year the company will begin selling its Ekso suit to rehab clinics in the United States and Europe, to allow patients with spinal cord injuries to train with the device under a doctor's supervision. By the middle of 2012, the company plans to have a model for at-home physical therapy. Read the entire article and view a video (3:52) at: http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/goodbye-wheelchair-hello-exoskeleton Links: Ekso Bionics http://www.eksobionics.com/ ExoHiker (2005) http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/berkeley_bionics_accepting_orders_for_prototype_exoskeleton