Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk

Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by m0rphy on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @12:58AM (#27980395)

Boston Dynamics should be making one of these. It fits really well with their expertise and is much better for them to be making these rather than robots that get sent to wars.

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Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by arpafaucon on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @05:16PM (#27989823)

I'd love to see that! I tend to think that some of their technical choices on Atlas would have to revised, though. Having hydraulic actuators (very good power/weight ratio) makes the robot quite noisy, which is fine for a robot, but less cool if there is someone stuck inside it a whole day

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Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by throwaway-571 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @07:49AM (#27982723)

More money in war than in peace application.

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