by Bruce Brown | January 16, 2023 | Health
Most exoskeleton projects are designed to help people move, such as Stanford Biomechatronics Lab’s ankle exoskeleton and Watercraft’s Atalante robotic exoskeleton. The Tokyo-based Archelis exoskeleton helps users stand still. Archelis CEO Hideyuki...
by Bruce Brown | October 27, 2022 | Enabling Tech
A prosthetic that’s smarter, faster, and easier than other technologies sounds like a win-win-win. That’s the three-measure goal a group of researchers from the Stanford Biomechatronics Laboratory set for their untethered exoskeleton. Any prosthetic that...
by Bruce Brown | December 14, 2021 | Health
We often write about new exoskeleton technology developed to help amputees and people with spinal cord injuries regain mobility. There’s also a second leg in exoskeleton advancement, however, as assistive technology. For example, we’ve written about work...
by Bruce Brown | November 22, 2021 | Enabling Tech
One of the strongest arguments in favor of free weights over weight machines for strength training has to do with symmetry. The problem is that humans aren’t symmetrical. People with minimal asymmetry often can power through weight machine workouts without...
by Bruce Brown | April 7, 2021 | Health
We had to make an exception. We don’t normally feature crowd-funded wearables on Health Tech Insider. As a rule we prefer to cover technology available today or under development in university labs or by established medical/wellness enterprises. We don’t...