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EARTHDATE: July 25, 2010

Official News page 8


VIDEO OF THE WEEK: ROBOT WALKER

by Hazed

After last week's powered exoskeleton for soldiers (see http://www.ibgames.net/fednews/100718/official05.html), this week comes news of another advance in powered mobility devices, this time aimed at wheelchair uses. It's a set of robotic "legs" that allow a wheelchair-bound person to walk again*. Here's a video showing the Rex robotic machine in action.

It's horrendously expensive because each one has to be custom made to fit the user, but it really does offer a huge benefit.


*Does anyone remember the TV series Dark Angel? The Rex machine looks very similar to the powered legs that allowed one of the characters, who was paralysed, to walk again... another example of real life catching up with science fiction.


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