Personalized Exoskeletons Are Taking Support One Step Farther (10 of 15) (IMAGE)

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Personalized Exoskeletons Are Taking Support One Step Farther (10 of 15)

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An ankle exoskeleton emulator with the ability to customize assistance to an individual user's physiological needs. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 23, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Zhang at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, and colleagues was titled, 'Human-in-the-loop optimization of exoskeleton assistance during walking.'

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Carnegie Mellon University

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