{"id":110000,"date":"2020-07-15T13:47:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T20:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/the-elderly-may-toss-their-walkers-for-this-robotic-suit"},"modified":"2020-07-15T13:47:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T20:47:52","slug":"the-elderly-may-toss-their-walkers-for-this-robotic-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/the-elderly-may-toss-their-walkers-for-this-robotic-suit","title":{"rendered":"The Elderly May Toss Their Walkers for This Robotic Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-elderly-may-toss-their-walkers-for-this-robotic-suit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No one wants to walk with a walker, but age has a way of making people compromise on their quality of life. The team behind Superflex, which spun out of SRI International in May, thinks there could be another way.<\/p>\n<p>The company is building wearable robotic suits, plus other types of clothing, that can make it easier for soldiers to carry heavy loads or for elderly or disabled people to perform basic tasks. A current prototype is a soft suit that fits over most of the body. It delivers a jolt of supporting power to the legs, arms, or torso exactly when needed to reduce the burden of a load or correct for the body\u2019s shortcomings.<\/p>\n<p>A walker is a \u201cvery cost-effective\u201d solution for people with limited mobility, but \u201cit completely disempowers, removes dignity, removes freedom, and causes a whole host of other psychological problems,\u201d SRI Ventures president Manish Kothari says. \u201cSuperflex\u2019s goal is to remove all of those areas that cause psychological-type encumbrances and, ultimately, redignify the individual.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one wants to walk with a walker, but age has a way of making people compromise on their quality of life. The team behind Superflex, which spun out of SRI International in May, thinks there could be another way. The company is building wearable robotic suits, plus other types of clothing, that can make [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110000","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}