Bio-Inspired Lower-Limb 'Wearing Robotic Exoskeleton' for Human Gait Rehab
From: ECN - 10/25/2016

Stroke and spinal cord injury patients often require gait rehabilitation to
regain the ability to walk or to help strengthen their muscles. Wearable
"robot-assisted training" is quickly emerging as a method that helps improve
this rehab process.

In a major advance, researchers from Beihang University in China and Aalborg
University in Denmark have designed a lower-limb robot exoskeleton - a
wearable robot—that features natural knee movement to greatly improve
patients' comfort and willingness to wear it for gait rehab.

As the team reports in Review of Scientific Instruments, from AIP Publishing,
their robotic exoskeleton is intended to help stroke patients strengthen
their physical fitness, aid the rehabilitation training of paralyzed
patients, or to assist those who need help performing daily activities.

The exoskeleton's main role will be to help stroke or spinal cord injury
patients with their rehab.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2016/10/bio-inspired-lower-limb-wearing-robotic-exoskeleton-human-gait-rehab
https://www.mdtmag.com/news/2016/10/bio-inspired-lower-limb-wearing-robotic-exoskeleton-human-gait-rehab

Link:
Design of a biologically inspired lower limb exoskeleton for human gait
  rehabilitation
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/rsi/87/10/10.1063/1.4964136