For centuries, humans have turned to tools, braces, and therapy to restore movement after injury or disease. But what if the next stage of mobility isn’t about therapy or external devices, but about slipping into a soft robotic jacket that learns your movements, adapts to your needs, and becomes a seamless extension of your body? That future is no longer science fiction. It is being stitched, wired, and programmed in research labs right now.
Continue reading… “The Rise of Wearable Robot Jackets: Reimagining Human Movement”Scientists develop a brain-computer interface for controlling an exoskeleton
Korea University and TU Berlin scientists have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) for a lower limb exoskeleton used for gait assistance by decoding specific signals from the user’s brain.
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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge hits 1 billion YouTube views
Rita Ora does the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
We can call this the summer of the Ice Bucket Challenge with videos of shivering people flooding social feeds around the world. And what a summer it was: we saw epic stunts, epic fails, quirky twists and a whole lot of celebrities. We learned a lot about the strange connections between famous people (Bill Gates knows Ryan Seacrest?). The IBC craze even resulted in a couple of marriage proposals. And it’s all in the name of charity: Since July 29, 2014 the ALS Foundation reported more than $115 million in Ice Bucket Challenge donations.
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