12/18/2022
That’s the vision of researchers at Stanford University’s Biomechatronics Lab, who’ve developed their first untethered exoskeleton designed to give people a motorized boost to their step as they walk.
I’ve come to Stanford for CNET’s What the Future video series to put the exoskeletons through their paces (quite literally) and see if my speedy walk can be powered up, superhero style.
Patrick Slade, the postdoctoral scholar behind the exoskeleton design, has given me a lot of hope on that front.
“You can think about this as like a virtual reality system for your legs,” says Steve Collins, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford, and the lab lead. “We program in the device that we think might help a person, we put on the emulator, they feel what it would be like to walk with that device. And then if it helps… we refine the design. If it doesn’t, then we ditch that and try something new.”
But testing in a lab is one thing, testing out in the real world is a whole different ball game. I headed out on the Stanford campus with Patrick Slade to put the exo-boots to the test.
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