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Moving exoskeletons from sci-fi into medical rehabilitation and therapy

  • Written by Rana Soltani-Zarrin, Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
imageIs this the future of physical therapy?Body drawing via shutterstock.com

Chances are, you’ve seen a person using a powered exoskeleton – what you might think of as a sort of bionic suit – but only in the movies. In the 2013 movie “Elysium,” for example, Matt Damon’s character has an exoskeleton that makes his...

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