{"id":133946,"date":"2022-01-12T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/robotic-exoskeleton-gives-prosthetic-legs-a-power-boost"},"modified":"2022-01-12T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:22:19","slug":"robotic-exoskeleton-gives-prosthetic-legs-a-power-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/robotic-exoskeleton-gives-prosthetic-legs-a-power-boost","title":{"rendered":"Robotic exoskeleton gives prosthetic legs a power boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XOHYDfjH0Q0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>University of Utah engineers have built a robotic exoskeleton that gives people with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/series\/superhuman\/most-advanced-bionic-leg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prosthetic legs<\/a> a power boost that makes walking less difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s equivalent to taking off a 26-pound backpack [while walking],\u201d lead researcher Tommaso Lenzi <a href=\"https:\/\/attheu.utah.edu\/facultystaff\/power-walk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cThat is a really big improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge: <\/strong>About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amputee-coalition.org\/resources\/transfemoral-amputation-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">220,000 people<\/a> in the U.S. have had above-knee amputations, meaning their leg was amputated somewhere between the knee and hip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Utah engineers have built a robotic exoskeleton that gives people with prosthetic legs a power boost that makes walking less difficult. \u201cIt\u2019s equivalent to taking off a 26-pound backpack [while walking],\u201d lead researcher Tommaso Lenzi said in a press release. \u201cThat is a really big improvement.\u201d The challenge: About 220,000 people in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133946","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}