Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk

Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by ad404b8a372f2b9 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:36PM (#27974434)

The medical device industry in France is heavily regulated and products are audited before they reach the market so you can be sure it's a risk that's been identified and remediated.

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Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by crummybowley on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:40PM (#27974474)

Yeah, I think the OP was really talking about this individual case.

Eg, this guy put his kid in a device that could kill him (maybe).

Looking back at the videos from Boston Dynamics, a ton of effort is put in to the failure mode testing. I highly doubt 1) this is dynamic, 2) failure modes were considered much.

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Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by ad404b8a372f2b9 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:44PM (#27974540)

This individual case is a medical device company in France, not some garage hacker as the title might imply. No human (except the engineers on the down-low) will have stepped foot inside the device before a very late stage in the design, possibly requiring approval for human trials, at which point all those risks will have been assessed.

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Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by crummybowley on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @02:45PM (#27975993)

I stand corrected.

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