I’ve just been looking again at this exoskeleton suit called “HAL” from a company in Japan called Cyberdyne:
HAL Exoskeleton Suit, picture courtesy of Cyberdyne.jp
This was interesting in its ability to pick up the timy impulses that the brain sends to the muscles when a person tries tp move. These impulses are detected by sensors placed on the surface of the skin.
The only problem is that, as the company says, this exoskeleton increases the strength of existing muscle action, so it seems that if someone has no movement at all in, say, their legs, it appears on the face of it that the HAL exoskeleton suit will not be able to help them.
I am trying to get more detailed information from Cyberdyne in order to clarify this.
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