Exoskeleton Comes to Good Shepherd - WFMZ News

Yoshiyuki Sankai, Ph.D., inventor of the Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL), presented an inservice for employees of Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network on Monday, April 13, 2009. The event, which was held at the Good Shepherd Health & Technology Center, 850 South 5th Street, Allentown, marked Dr. Sankai's first public discussion of his state-of-the-art exoskeleton in the United States. At a private dinner following the inservice, Dr. Sankai received the Good Shepherd Hall of Fame award.

The Good Shepherd Hall of Fame award originally was designed to honor national heroes with disabilities who overcame their challenges and inspired hope and optimism throughout the country. The criteria for the award were expanded several years ago to include extraordinary men and women who dedicate their talents to designing assistive technologies and improving the lives of people with disabilities. Previous recipients include Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway® Personal Transporter and the iBOT® Mobility System, Ray Kurzweil, prolific author and futurist, and John Abele, founder chairman of Boston Scientific.

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• exoskeleton
• Good Shepherd
• Yoshiyuki Sankai
• Hybrid Assistive Limb
• assistive technology
• spinal cord injury

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I am a quadriplegic who was lucky enough to have regained the ability to walk very short distances with a cane...basically around the house. However, this would be wonderful to have in order to take nature walks & reach the top shelves in a store without having to get up & down out of a wheel chair! I love SCIENCE & what it has done for me...Religion is really just wishful thinking based on Bronze Age Mythology & useless for real results.