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Berkeley Bionics Uses Military Technology to Let Wheelchair Users Walk

By Frank Tobe | October 9, 2010

Slimming down their military HULC exoskeleton (which they have licensed to Lockheed Martin), Berkeley Bionics has introduced eLEGS, a gesture-based human-machine interface which senses and determines intentions and then acts to orchestrate every aspect of a single stride.

Clinical trials will commence early next year at select rehabilitation clinics in the United States.

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Frank Tobe

Frank Tobe is the founder of The Robot Report and co-founder of ROBO Global which has developed a tracking index for the robotics industry, the ROBO Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. The index of ~90 companies in 13 sub-sectors tracks and captures the entire economic value of this global opportunity in robotics, automation and enabling technologies.