Wearable Robots Usher in Next Generation of Mobility Therapies
From: ECN Magazine - 10/17/2016

Wearable robots that can anticipate and react to users' movement in real time
could dramatically improve mobility assistance and rehabilitation tools.

Wearable robots are programmable body-worn devices, or exoskeletons, that are
designed to mechanically interact with the user. Their purpose is to assist
or even substitute human motor function for people who have severe difficulty
moving or walking.

The BIOMOT project, completed in September 2016, has helped to advance this
emerging field by demonstrating that personalised computational models of the
human body can effectively be used to control wearable exoskeletons. The
project has identified ways of achieving improved flexibility and autonomous
performance, which could assist in the use of wearable robots as mobility
assistance and rehabilitation tools.

The project developed robots with real-time adaptability and flexibility by
increasing the symbiosis between the robot and the user through dynamic
sensorimotor interactions. A hierarchical approach to these interactions was
taken, allowing the project team to apply different layers for different
purposes. This means in effect that an exoskeleton can be personalised to an
individual user.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2016/10/wearable-robots-usher-next-generation-mobility-therapies
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-wearable-robots-usher-mobility-therapies.html

Links:
BIOMOT
http://www.biomotivation.eu

Juan Moreno
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/juan-c-moreno

Wearable modular device to facilitate walking rehabilitation
http://phys.org/news/2016-03-wearable-modular-device.html