Now researchers at Carnegie Mellon and North Carolina State have provided an answer in the affirmative with the development of an unpowered ankle exoskeleton. The result of eight years of work ...

This interdisciplinary research team developed a device that behaves as an unpowered exoskeleton ... it has a hinge located at the ankle. This design allows for the mechanical clutch to hold ...

Here we show that the metabolic rate of human walking can be reduced by an unpowered ankle exoskeleton. We built a lightweight elastic device that acts in parallel with the user's calf muscles ...

It is lightweight, unpowered, wearable exoskeleton (the walking assist clutch) to reduce the energy cost of human walking. This wearable boot-like apparatus, when attached to the foot and ankle, ...

"We've shown how an unpowered ankle exoskeleton could be redesigned to fit under clothing and inside/under shoes so it more seamlessly integrates into daily life," said Matt Yandell, a mechanical ...

pulling upward during the push-off to help extend the ankle with each step. The unpowered spring mode turned out to be slightly less efficient than having no exoskeleton, but the powered mode made ...

Lockheed Martin has been experimenting with a more elegant unpowered ... rest of the exoskeleton is designed with human movement and biomechanics in mind. There are joints at the ankle, knee ...

Engineers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, have devised an unpowered, low-cost ankle exoskeleton that can be worn under clothing, enhancing lower leg strength discretely. (Credit: ...

The ankle exoskeletons, developed by researchers at Stanford University, use motors to give you extra power while you walk. CNET's Claire Reilly takes them for a test drive. Claire Reilly was a ...

Ankle exoskeletons that can help people extend their endurance are a step closer to reality with a new control algorithm, developed at the University of Michigan, that could enable future ...