Wearable robots

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A wearable robot is a person-oriented robot that is designed to be worn. Examples include exoskeletons that help people to walk or lift and robots that are designed to serve as front-end for wearable computers.

A wearable robot can be described as a mechatronic system (Wearable Robots: Biomechatronic Exoskeletons^[1]) that is designed around the shape and function of the human body, with segments and joints corresponding to those of the person it is externally coupled with.

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• National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
• Advanced Robotics Labs the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• The Guardian: Robot to help paralysed man climb mountain
• UW BioRobotics Lab

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