Cyberdyne’s robotic HAL suit marches into Japan hospital trials

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Clik here to view. While climbing mountains and helping disabled tourists are fine pursuits, Cyberdyne’s HAL robot suit has found an even nobler occupation: helping patients rehabilitate from debilitating nerve and muscle illnesses. According to The Asahi Shimbun , ten hospitals in Japan will start the first clinical trials of the lower-body suit version we saw last year , designed expressly for use by health care professionals. It works by detecting weak bio-electrical signals from patients’ muscles which drive small motors and power units, and will be tested on 30 adults to see if it can help them re-learn to walk.

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