Wearable Robotic Suit For Disabled

 

Are you physically disabled but wanted to be physically abled again? There is a hope to be abled again if you don’t hear yet the news about a wearable robotic suit or a wearable cyborg suit that help physically disabled people help them be physically abled again or to walk, stand up and even to climb or go on stairs again.

The suit was developed by a Japanese company Cyberdyne Inc. which is a creation of a known Japanese roboticist Yoshiyuki Sankai.

The suit is an exoskeleton that is powered by the wearer’s mind; it is lightweight suit. It is called “HAL” or “Hybrid Assistive Limb” or Robot Suit HAL. However, wearing it is not that cooking an instant noodle or as you wear it will already work but it takes time and help by a physiotherapist so that HAL and your brain start working together properly, as the information about it said.

“HAL -- essentially a wearable cyborg -- helps those with spinal cord injuries and muscular dystrophy regain their movements and strengthen their nerves and muscles. Known as exoskeletons, they're a type of lightweight suit, with joints powered by small electric motors, that serve as mechanical muscle. Here's what's truly mind-blowing: Patients use their brain waves to control them.” (CNN)

“A Japanese company has created a robotic exoskeleton that is designed to help make disabled people mobile again, enabling them to stand up, walk and even climb stairs. Cyberdyne Inc. has built what it calls Robot Suit HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) -- cyborg-type robotic suit. The exoskeleton, which is worn much like the suit in the movie Iron Man, is built to be used in medical rehabilitation or to help people who have suffered a stroke or spinal cord injury, for example, become mobile again. It also could be used for people doing physically demanding work in factories or at disaster sites, according to the company .HAL reportedly can make a wearer two to 10 times stronger than he normally is.(Computer World)

The main point : There is hope for those physically disabled people to go back on their feet again thanks to invented wearable robotic suit or wearable cyborg.