Rex the robotic exoskeleton for wheelchair users

[rocketnuts]

This tool is great! Granted it has some issues with speed and being light weight, but it has potential.

[Hesam0000]

This model is still too fat and too slow. Berkeley Bionics makes a thinner, faster one. Hopefully one of these companies makes an advanced human-copying model.

[Milvert08]

Is it possible they could design one that is connected to the whole body? My brother needs one that would assist him straighten his back bones and help him walk again. My brother is also suffering the same illness just as your friend, but brother is suffering from bed sores due to him seating on his wheelchair for hours. He is also half paralysized cause by his deformed spinal cord.

Is it possible your company could sponsor my brother's illness? We would be thankful!

[bbox]

its so slow though... id rather use a wheelchair

[junkpast]

Given more time and the fusion of different technologies, and this type of technology will become far more viable. Take the exoskeleton work being done in Utah by Sarcos, fuse that with mind machine interface technology like what is being done by Honda (and many universities), and that should make a person able to walk in no time (figuratively speaking).

[kyelek]

Slow right now, but with time it'll get better. Plus, I imagine that if the choice is between walking slowly and not walking at all, people will cope with the speed issues.

[jurgislv]

so itd take like an hour to get from the couch to the refrigerator with this thing

[neverendingchocolate]

@jurgislv That's the good news for those on a diet! hehe ;)