Recent technological advances have opened valuable possibilities for supporting people with motor impairments or who are ...

A new kind of partnership between human and machine is beginning to reshape how stroke recovery may look in the future.

Researchers have developed a soft pneumatic glove that could help people with paralyzed hands ...

Researchers created an affordable pneumatic exoskeleton glove that uses machine learning to decode forearm muscle signals and ...

ReWalk Robotics has announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs released details of a planned 4-year, national, multi-center study of ReWalk’s Personal 6.0 exoskeleton systems with people who ...

The biggest misconception is that exoskeletons are only for people with injuries or disabilities. In reality, they can enhance performance for everyday people—whether it’s hikers carrying heavy loads, ...

Physical therapists have long walked alongside stroke survivors during recovery. Now, they are walking with them. Scientists at Northwestern University and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab have developed a ...

In lab tests, researchers found that an optimized ankle exoskeleton system increased participants' walking speed by about 40 percent compared with their regular speed. The researchers hope someday to ...

Being unable to walk quickly can be frustrating and problematic, but it is a common issue, especially as people age. Noting the pervasiveness of slower-than-desired walking, engineers at Stanford ...

Exoskeletons have been a staple of the sci-fi imagination for decades: think Tony Stark's Iron Man outfit or Aliens' Ripley suiting up to shift containers (and battle the xenomorph queen). But those ...