{"id":36097,"date":"2017-04-13T23:42:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T06:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/toyota-shows-robotic-leg-brace-to-help-paralyzed-people-walk"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:04:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:04:57","slug":"toyota-shows-robotic-leg-brace-to-help-paralyzed-people-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/toyota-shows-robotic-leg-brace-to-help-paralyzed-people-walk","title":{"rendered":"Toyota shows robotic leg brace to help paralyzed people walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/toyota-shows-robotic-leg-brace-to-help-paralyzed-people-walk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toyota is introducing a wearable robotic leg brace designed to help partially paralyzed people walk.<\/p>\n<p>The Welwalk WW-1000 system is made up of a motorized mechanical frame that fits on a person\u2019s leg from the knee down. The patients can practice walking wearing the robotic device on a special treadmill that can support their weight.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota Motor Corp. demonstrated the equipment for reporters at its Tokyo headquarters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-04-toyota-robotic-leg-brace-paralyzed.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;04-toyota-robotic-leg-brace-paralyzed.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota is introducing a wearable robotic leg brace designed to help partially paralyzed people walk. The Welwalk WW-1000 system is made up of a motorized mechanical frame that fits on a person\u2019s leg from the knee down. The patients can practice walking wearing the robotic device on a special treadmill that can support their weight. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36097","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58081,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36097\/revisions\/58081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}