Ekso Bionics Introduces a Bionic Exoskeleton

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Ekso is a wearable robot or exoskeleton that powers people with lower extremity paralysis or weakness to get them standing up and walking. It is a battery powered, bionic device that is strapped over the user's clothing. The combination of motors and sensors, along with patient assist with balance and body position, allow the user to walk over ground with reciprocal gait.

As experience user/patient can transfer to/from their wheelchair and don or doff the Ekso in less than 5 minutes. The torso and leg straps are designed for the user/patient to easily get in and out of the device either on their own or with minimal assistance.

We have begun selling Ekso our bionic exoskeleton into the leading spinal cord centers across the United States. Understanding that each spinal cord rehabilitation center has a different infrastructure that will drive the robotic device's utilization, some potential areas of usage for both spinal cord injury patients and other with mobility limitations are for incomplete SCI patients: exercise and wellness, research, gait training and preparation for the personal exoskeleton that will be coming out late 2014. Other potential areas of usage are neurological disorders such as Guillain Barre, MS, ALS, and other diagnosis may benefit from gait training with Ekso if all inclusion criteria are met.

Ekso offers a wide variety of research opportunities with SCI and other diagnostic groups. Ekso Personal will be available late 2014 only through certified Ekso Centers that will have the ability to prescribe units to patients appropriate for the exoskeleton device.

Ekso Bionics is committed to applying the latest technology and engineering to help people rethink current physical limitations and achieve the remarkable. Originally Berkeley Bionics, Ekso Bionics was founded in Berkeley, California in 2005. Since inception Ekso Bionics has forged partnerships with world-class institutions like UC Berkeley, received research grants from the Department of Defense and licensed the HULC™ technology to the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Today Ekso Bionics continues to pioneer the field of exoskeletons, designing and creating some of the most forward-thinking and innovative solutions for people looking to augment human mobility and capability.

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[Ekso Bionics]

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[ZackFlapjack]

Please, let us embed this video, better to share this wonderful technology with the world!

[brian luk]

nothing exceptional compared to HAL exoskeleton

[Drawerofstuff]

Now we can think of getting them to run! Let's make the technology!!!

[sasa soso]

this is what i wanna see..helping the people with new technologie....not doing new spezial weapons or fighting robots like boston dynamics...!

[Nick Hansen]

If you spring loaded the footing and used small dynamos in the feet to catch the energy of the recoil in every step the machine would be self automated and feed off the power of gravity.

[Michael Taylor]

This is nothing short of AMAZING! I'm just an amputee but I rehabbed with several paralyzed individuals. What is the highest spinal injury this can work with?

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[Chowder7116]

Stalkers from HL2

[suckmyassloser]

Eventually something like this will replace wheel chairs for the disabled and those scooters for the fat and lazy.

[Oumar Moctar Kalibou]

If i see science growing, i'm jeaulous about the future generation that i'll miss for sure