Bionic Sifl to the rescue! The Berkeley Lower Extremities Exoskeleton

[iwearnosox]

<Bionic man theme song here>

Sweeet.

Videos

 

[cerebusPu]

at work we have a lower body exoskeleton for research in rehab robotics. we will be building an upper body exoskeleton in the next few months.

i wouldnt wear it until Im certain it would not all of a sudden bend in ways not humanly possible. (we program these things and we know theres bugs all over the place)

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: cerebusPu
at work we have a lower body exoskeleton for research in rehab robotics. we will be building an upper body exoskeleton in the next few months.

i wouldnt wear it until Im certain it would not all of a sudden bend in ways not humanly possible. (we program these things and we know theres bugs all over the place)

Why not just limit motion range of the joints?

 

[iwearnosox]

Looking at the videos it appears the backpack is the engine for the thing?