TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...

Marine Capt. Derek Herrera, who was paralyzed by a sniper’s bullet two years ago in southern Afghanistan, is walking again thanks to a set of robotic leg braces known as the ReWalk system. Herrera is ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators have approved a first-of-a-kind set of robotic leg braces that can help some disabled people walk again. The ReWalk system functions like an exoskeleton for ...

Support VTDigger’s local nonprofit news and you could win a $250 gift card to Johnson Woolen Mills. Kiel Alarcon tries out his motorized leg brace in his Windsor apartment in October. He began ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WPVI) -- Some paralyzed veterans could soon be getting high-tech gear to help them walk again, thanks to a decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs. This is a big break for ...

A new kind of robotic leg braces that are controlled by small voltage fluctuations of the brain, as read by an electroencephalogram (EEG) placed over the head, could pave the way for overcoming ...

BERKELEY, Calif. -- Move over Bionic Man and make room for BLEEX -- the Berkeley Lower Extremities Exoskeleton, with strap-on robotic legs designed to turn an ordinary human into a super strider.

Researchers have been working on developing robotic prosthetics and exoskeletons to help people with disabilities. Now, scientists at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom are working on ...