Thursday, October 27, 2005

Exoskeleton technology

I remember reading about HAL5 earlier this year. Looks like this technology is coming of age. I recall that HAL5 was going to be available in Japan any day now. This technology has lots of promise for the disabled, elderly and of course the military.

I also found a more recent article at IEEE Spectrum, "Rise Of The Body Bots", that discusses the advances made so far this year. This article talks about the research work in Japan and in the USA. Looks like Japan and USA are the leading researchers in this emerging technology.

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