{"id":71780,"date":"2017-08-08T12:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T19:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/alexa-im-ready-to-walk-robotics-company-using-amazons-ai-to-help-control-exoskeleton"},"modified":"2017-08-08T12:02:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T19:02:29","slug":"alexa-im-ready-to-walk-robotics-company-using-amazons-ai-to-help-control-exoskeleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/alexa-im-ready-to-walk-robotics-company-using-amazons-ai-to-help-control-exoskeleton","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alexa, I\u2019m ready to walk\u2019: Robotics company using Amazon\u2019s AI to help control exoskeleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alexa-im-ready-to-walk-robotics-company-using-amazons-ai-to-help-control-exoskeleton2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one thing to be wowed by Amazon\u2019s Alexa and her ability to turn off Katy Perry, or turn on the lights. But what if the voice-activated artificial intelligence could help control a robotic device designed to help people walk?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the hope of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioniklabs.com\/\">Bionik Laboratories<\/a>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioniklabs.com\/news-media\/press-releases\/detail\/50\/bionik-laboratories-corp-completes-integration-of-amazon\">announced Tuesday<\/a> that it has integrated Alexa into its ARKE lower body exoskeleton. The product is in clinical development, and the future goal is for individuals who have suffered a spinal cord injury or are otherwise severely impaired in their lower body to gain mobility such as standing and walking.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2017\/alexa-im-ready-walk-robotics-company-using-amazons-ai-help-control-exoskeleton\/\">https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2017\/alexa-im-ready-walk-robotics-c...oskeleton\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one thing to be wowed by Amazon\u2019s Alexa and her ability to turn off Katy Perry, or turn on the lights. But what if the voice-activated artificial intelligence could help control a robotic device designed to help people walk? That\u2019s the hope of Bionik Laboratories, which announced Tuesday that it has integrated Alexa into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71780","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\/71780","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}