by Alfred Poor | June 27, 2017 | General News, Medical
One of the insidious aspects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is that in most cases, the damage is not visible. The gold standard for diagnosis is a CT scan, but this is not possible on the battlefield or football field. Medical personnel are generally limited to...
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by Bruce Brown | April 19, 2017 | General News, Medical
Military veterans and civilian amputees may soon benefit from a new type of prosthetic that helps them swim. According to the Congressional Research Service A Guide to U.S. Military Casualty Statistics, as of June 2015, there were 1,645 veterans with major limb...
by Bruce Brown | March 17, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
The U.S. Department of Defense’s wildest group of scientists routinely sponsors competitions and throws out challenges to attract the country’s best engineers and scientists. Tasked with finding solutions to seemingly impossible problems, the Defense...
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by Bruce Brown | February 23, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Exoskeleton development is speeding along on many fronts. We have written about Ekso Bionics lower extremity rigid exoskeleton for rehabilitation and paraplegic mobility . We also covered Cyberdyne’s HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) for Medical Use Lower Body, used...
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...
