{"id":207691,"date":"2025-03-03T16:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T22:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-self-balancing-exoskeleton-strides-toward-market"},"modified":"2025-03-03T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T22:07:13","slug":"a-self-balancing-exoskeleton-strides-toward-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-self-balancing-exoskeleton-strides-toward-market","title":{"rendered":"A Self-Balancing Exoskeleton Strides Toward Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-self-balancing-exoskeleton-strides-toward-market.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many people who have spinal cord injuries also have dramatic tales of disaster: a diving accident, a car crash, a construction site catastrophe. But Chlo\u00eb Angus has quite a different story. She was home one evening in 2015 when her right foot started tingling and gradually lost sensation. She managed to drive herself to the hospital, but over the course of the next few days she lost all sensation and control of both legs. The doctors found a benign tumor inside her spinal cord that couldn\u2019t be removed, and told her she\u2019d never walk again. But Angus, a jet-setting fashion designer, isn\u2019t the type to take such news lying\u2014or sitting\u2014down.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years later, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tag\/ces\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">CES<\/a> tech trade show in January, Angus was showing off her dancing moves in a powered <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tag\/exoskeleton\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">exoskeleton<\/a> from the Canadian company <a href=\"https:\/\/humaninmotion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Human in Motion Robotics<\/a>. \u201cGetting back to walking is pretty cool after <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tag\/spinal-cord-injury\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">spinal cord injury<\/a>, but getting back to dancing is a game changer,\u201d she told a crowd on the expo floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people who have spinal cord injuries also have dramatic tales of disaster: a diving accident, a car crash, a construction site catastrophe. But Chlo\u00eb Angus has quite a different story. She was home one evening in 2015 when her right foot started tingling and gradually lost sensation. She managed to drive herself to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207691","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\/207691","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}