{"id":101072,"date":"2020-01-19T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T18:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-elderly-in-japan-are-using-exoskeletons-to-delay-retirement"},"modified":"2020-01-19T10:22:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T18:22:37","slug":"the-elderly-in-japan-are-using-exoskeletons-to-delay-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-elderly-in-japan-are-using-exoskeletons-to-delay-retirement","title":{"rendered":"The Elderly in Japan are Using Exoskeletons to Delay Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-elderly-in-japan-are-using-exoskeletons-to-delay-retirement2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response, a number of Japanese tech companies are building exoskeleton suits to give the elderly a leg \u2014 or arm \u2014 up. One such company, Innophys, developed a backpack-like suit that can be \u2018charged\u2019 by squeezing a hand pump 30 times to fill pressurized air-powered \u201cmuscles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suit can allow people to lift up to 55 pounds, costs the equivalent of about $1,300.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne client is a family-owned company which makes and sells pickled radish and uses heavy weights in the process of production,\u201d Innophys spokesperson Daigo Orihara told <em>New Scientist<\/em>. \u201cThe father is in his 70s and was supposed to retire but is still working with our muscle suit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response, a number of Japanese tech companies are building exoskeleton suits to give the elderly a leg \u2014 or arm \u2014 up. One such company, Innophys, developed a backpack-like suit that can be \u2018charged\u2019 by squeezing a hand pump 30 times to fill pressurized air-powered \u201cmuscles.\u201d The suit can allow people to lift up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}