New Student Exoskeleton Team Launches Prototype
From: University of Michigan Electrical & Computer Engineering - 07/12/2017

Student team STARX (STrength Augmenting Robotic eXoskeletons) completed its
second year, focused on making practical powered exoskeletons that increase
the effective strength of the user. This year, they built a new load-bearing
exoskeleton called the Lexo. In its finished state, this device will transfer
a load of up to 100 lbs off of the user and into the ground so they do not
feel the weight.

Currently, no collegiate competition exists for exoskeleton design. To fill
this need, STARX is working to organize the first collegiate exoskeleton
competition right here in Ann Arbor, to be called the Applied Collegiate
Exoskeleton Competition (ACE). In doing so, the students hope to get more
engineers working on exoskeleton research, which at the moment is very
limited.

Read the entire article and view a video (1:16)  at:
http://eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2017/new-student-exoskeleton-team-launches-prototype.html

Links:
STARX
http://starx.engin.umich.edu

Applied Collegiate Exoskeleton Competition (ACE)
https://www.acecompetition.org