by Bruce Brown | January 18, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
As exoskeleton technology advances, the life-changing potential for specific Health Tech applications grows. We’ve written about exoskeleton tech often, most recently when Hyundai introduced three exoskeleton robots under development to the world and last year...
by Bruce Brown | January 13, 2017 | General News, Medical
One of the interesting sights at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was Hyundai’s reveal of products in development. But they weren’t cars. Hyundai introduced three exoskeleton wearable robots called, respectively, H-MEX, HUMA, and H-WEX. We’ve...
by Bruce Brown | December 9, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
When traumatic cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) results in the loss of motor function in both arms and legs, known as quadriplegia, life expectancy shortens. Quality of life is substantially affected through a loss of independence. Quadriplegia is most commonly...
by Alfred Poor | September 14, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health
[Credit: BBC] Sometimes, finishing last is still a victory. Take the case of Claire Lomas who completed a half-marathon last weekend in England. She was 16-weeks pregnant at the time, but that’s not the newsworthy detail. She is also paralyzed below her chest,...
by Bruce Brown | June 7, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Soon people with mobility challenges and people with injuries requiring rehabilitation may get assistance from a suit originally developed for soldiers for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The original Warrior Web program was designed to...
