The Mechanical Miracle Worker
From: New Equipment Digest - 05/08/2017
By: John Hitch

You may not have heard of Homayoon Kazerooni, the roboticist responsible for
the burgeoning exoskeleton renaissance. But he knows who you are, and he
wants to change your life.

An invention he helped build that allowed someone else to take steps just as
groundbreaking as Armstrong's - and ended up in the pages of Time, as one of
the publication’s 50 Best Inventions of 2010.

Called the eLEGS, the device was a medical exoskeleton that restores the
ability to walk to paraplegics, MS patients, and stroke victims.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.newequipment.com/industry-trends/mechanical-miracle-worker

Links:
eLegs Exoskeleton
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2029497_2030618_2029794,00.html

eLEGS
http://bleex.me.berkeley.edu/research/exoskeleton/elegs%E2%84%A2

Ekso GT with SmartAssist
http://eksobionics.com

Paralyzed student, Austin Whitney, walks at graduation (video 2:04)
https://youtu.be/sZ_FCtRRgBk

UC Berkeley Exoskeleton BBC Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature (video 9:09)
https://youtu.be/UFcBnLpbpWg

Noonee Chairless Chair - Wearable Ergonomic Mechatronic Devices
http://www.noonee.com

Exo Suits - hip exoskeleton
http://robotics.fulton.asu.edu

Related:
EyeWriter
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2029497_2030618_2029822,00.html