{"id":26654,"date":"2016-06-08T19:31:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T02:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-elderly-may-one-day-swap-their-motorized-scooters-for-robotic-suits"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:56:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:56:59","slug":"the-elderly-may-one-day-swap-their-motorized-scooters-for-robotic-suits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-elderly-may-one-day-swap-their-motorized-scooters-for-robotic-suits","title":{"rendered":"The Elderly May One Day Swap Their Motorized Scooters for Robotic Suits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-elderly-may-one-day-swap-their-motorized-scooters-for-robotic-suits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robotic exoskeletons, long a staple of sci-fi novels, comic books, and movies, are now part of the real world\u2014and they\u2019ve mostly followed the sci-fi model. That is, exoskeletons are wearable robots. All metal, all the time. But metal suits are heavy and power hungry, and the human body isn\u2019t metal. If you actually plan to use an exoskeleton for an extended period of time, this can be a bit of a design flaw.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where a new exosuit developed by SRI International is looking to flip the script. Instead of working to build exoskeletons\u2014which are rigid like their namesake\u2014SRI is using soft robotics to make lightweight, wearable \u201cexomuscles\u201d and \u201cexotendons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead of a human-shaped heavy metal frame, SRI\u2019s exosuit is soft, pliable, and intelligent. The suit learns and adapts to its wearer\u2019s movements to give them a boost when needed. It\u2019s quick to put on and relatively energy efficient.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/06\/08\/the-elderly-may-one-day-swap-their-motorized-scooters-for-robotic-suits\/#.V1jUbGrzpe0.facebook\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/06\/08\/the-elderly-may-one-day...0.facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robotic exoskeletons, long a staple of sci-fi novels, comic books, and movies, are now part of the real world\u2014and they\u2019ve mostly followed the sci-fi model. That is, exoskeletons are wearable robots. All metal, all the time. But metal suits are heavy and power hungry, and the human body isn\u2019t metal. If you actually plan to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26654","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67275,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26654\/revisions\/67275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}