Self -EXoskeleton step towards the market

“You will never walk again” today and age is not long, with the technology we have, “says Angus.

Origin of the exoskeleton xomotion

Angus that works as a man in motion Director Laured Experience, which has been involved in the company and its technology since 2016. At that time, she will place several academics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, which had a new idea for Exoskeleton. Associate Professor Siamak Arsanpour and his colleague Edward Park wanted to draw from top robotics to create a self -sufficient device.

At that time, several companies had exoskeletons for use in rehabilitation settings, but the technology had many restrictions: especially all these exoskeletons required crutches to stabilize the upper body of the user while walking. What’s more, users did not lead help to get in and out of the exoskeleton and the device usually couldn’t handle turns, steps or slopes. Angus remembers trying an exoskeleton from the Ekso Bionics in 2016: “I said at the end of the week, “That’s fun, but we have to build a better exoskeleton.”

Arsanpour, the CEO of Human in Motion, says the team has always been attracted to the engineering challenge to balance exoskeleton. “” “”When we gave Chloë, we realized that what we asked was what users needed, ”he says. “She verified our vision.”

ARUN Jayaraman, who conducts research by exoskeletons in the Shirley Laba Laba laboratory, works with human in his clinical trials this spring. It says exoskeletons with their own balancing are more suitable for home use than exoskeletons that require arms support: “The auxiliary devices such as pedestrians and crutches make it difficult to transition across surfaces such as level groups, ramps, curbs or non -invoice surfaces.

How do exoskeletons work with their own balance?

Exoskeletons with their own balance use most of the same technology that have many humanoid robots that are now entering the market. They have ankle, knee and hip controls, a number of sensors that detect both the exoskeleton and the surrounding surroundings and the very fast processors to crush all these sensor data and generate instructions for further movements of the device.

While exoskeletons with their own balance are larger than those that require braces for arms, Arsanpour says that the independence they provide to its users makes this technology an apparent winner. He also notes that self -sufficient models can use wider rage of people, people with limited upper body and mobility belong.

When Angus wants to deploy xomotion, he can convene it from the whole room using an application and order it to sit next to her Wheelchair. He can convert himself and bring himself to a device without help and then use a simple joystick that is connected to the exoskeleton to control his movement. He notes that the exoskeleton could work with a number of different mechanisms, but the cable connection is considered the safest: “There is no Wi-Fi signal in this way,” he says. When he puts the device into the “dance mode” created by engineers for it, it can drop the driver and rely on the exoskeleton sensors to rise to the fine shifts of her torso and convert them into leg movements.

What are the challenges for household exoskeletons?

Xomotion is not the first exoskelette to offer hands-free use. This honor goes to the French company Wandercraft, which already has regulatory approval for its rehabilitation model in Europe and the United States and now begins clinical evaluation for the domestic model. But Arsanpour says Xomotion offers several technical advances compared to Wandercraft, including the accurate alignment of robotic joints and biological joints of the user to ensure that the UNTu stress is not on the body, as well as the torque sensors in actions to collect more movements.