Wearable robots

Wearable robots

A wearable robot is a person-oriented robot that is designed to be worn. Examples include exoskeletons that help people to walk or lift and robots that are designed to serve as front-end for wearable computers.

A wearable robot can be described as a mechatronic system ("Wearable Robots: Biomechatronic Exoskeletons" [cite web
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title = Wearable Robots: Biomechatronic Exoskeletons
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] ) that is designed around the shape and function of the human body, with segments and joints corresponding to those of the person it is externally coupled with.

External links

* [http://www.nibib.nih.gov/publicPage.cfm?pageid=664 National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.]
* [http://www2.acae.cuhk.edu.hk/~arl/r-wearable.htm Advanced Robotics Labs the Chinese University of Hong Kong]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,,1746157,00.html The Guardian: Robot to help paralysed man climb mountain]
* [http://brl.ee.washington.edu/Research_Active/Exoskeleton/Exoskeleton_Index.html UW BioRobotics Lab]

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