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Can provide self-reliance to the elderly and disabled with simple acts like walking up the stairs.
Wyss Institue at Harvard University have developed soft exoskeletons made of just a waist belt, two thigh pieces and two calf straps.
Sensors use electromyography to determine the parts of the body that need the most assistance.
Test subjects carried thirty percent of their body weight at three miles per hour on a treadmill with a significant metabolic power reduction.
