It is not the first time that we hear of exoskeletons, in the past we have seen some that help us to save energy, other mechanically increase our strength by helping to carry out operations that would require much more power than we would be able to generate their own. And some who kick you knee.
No, we're not kidding. Scientists of ETH Zurich, in collaboration with the National Center of Competence in Research Robotics, have invented this contraption that, when worn tries to destabilize the user with the similar pulse at light kicks on the side of the knee, just as we can observe in the video shown above.
Masochism? Of course not. It is a device which, indeed, could help to greatly improve the lives of some people less fortunate than most of those who are reading.
The exoskeleton developed by scientists of the Swiss laboratory, in fact, deliberately destabilize the wearer during walking simulation to record all sorts of data and parameters relating to the natural reaction of our organism to these external.
These data will be useful in the process of realization of advanced prostheses of a different kind which will have to respond in turn to the stresses in a more realistic and natural as possible. A major difficulty of subjects in need of this type of prosthesis is in fact linked to the rate of reaction of the same when the latter are in a precarious situation of stability or otherwise non-linear.
A definitely unconventional method but then, never as in this case, the end justifies the means!
No, we're not kidding. Scientists of ETH Zurich, in collaboration with the National Center of Competence in Research Robotics, have invented this contraption that, when worn tries to destabilize the user with the similar pulse at light kicks on the side of the knee, just as we can observe in the video shown above.
Masochism? Of course not. It is a device which, indeed, could help to greatly improve the lives of some people less fortunate than most of those who are reading.
The exoskeleton developed by scientists of the Swiss laboratory, in fact, deliberately destabilize the wearer during walking simulation to record all sorts of data and parameters relating to the natural reaction of our organism to these external.
These data will be useful in the process of realization of advanced prostheses of a different kind which will have to respond in turn to the stresses in a more realistic and natural as possible. A major difficulty of subjects in need of this type of prosthesis is in fact linked to the rate of reaction of the same when the latter are in a precarious situation of stability or otherwise non-linear.
A definitely unconventional method but then, never as in this case, the end justifies the means!
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