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Japanese robot suit to let paralyzed move again
TODAYonline,
InfoTech // Thursday, September 28, 2006
Japan's Matsushita company unveiled a robotic suit, eyed to be marketed in two years, that will help people who are partially paralyzed rehabilitate the rest of their bodies. When a person who suffered a stroke moves his or her active arm while wearing the suit, the paralyzed other arm will make the same motion by stretching and bending compressors that act as muscles....
The robotic suit, which slips over a person's upper body and arms, weighs only 1.8 kilograms (four pounds).....The robotic suit will likely be sold initially at about two million yen (about 17,000 dollars) for use at rehabilitation facilities....more...
