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First Exoskeleton Gets FDA Approval For U.S. Sales

posted by n1 on Saturday June 28 2014, @08:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the waiting-for-gray-fox-edition dept.

AnonTechie writes:

A motorized exoskeleton, designed to help paralyzed people walk again, just earned U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. It is the first such device to do so.

The device, called ReWalk, straps on a user's body and helps those with certain spinal-cord injuries to sit, stand, and walk. Users have to wear a backpack to carry the ReWalk's computer and battery. They also have to wear a wrist device with buttons to tell the motorized legs when to stand up, sit down, or start walking. But it's not like users are punching every step into their wrist controllers — ReWalk's legs also respond to movements of the user's torso, so that leaning forward triggers a step.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 28 2014, @02:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 28 2014, @02:10PM (#61335)

    Of course this is for making the lame walk, not for killer cyborgs...

    Or for help killing ruthless xenomorphs...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYzWUjxnESg [youtube.com]

    Potatocammed through the 'analog hole'
    to avoid takedown due to
    copyright infringement. Under the
    old USA copyright system, this clip and
    the movie it came from would hit the public
    domain effective 2014-07-18, 28 years after
    its release on 1986-07-18.

    The movie poster is ICONIC!

    http://www.impawards.com/1986/posters/aliens_ver1_xlg.jpg [impawards.com]