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• Soft Exosuits
  Soft exosuits offer a new way to assist the elderly in maintaining or restoring their gait, in rehabilitating children and adults with movement disorders due to Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s Disease, or to ease the physical burden of soldiers, firefighters, paramedics, farmers, factory workers and others whose jobs require them to carry extremely heavy...
• Soft Robotic Glove
  The majority of patients with partial or total loss of hand motor abilities, including those suffering from debilitating disorders like muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and incomplete spinal cord injury, experience greatly reduced quality of life due to their inability to perform many daily activities. Tasks often taken for granted by the able-bodied become...

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• Press Release Shedding light on how humans walk…with robots
  May 24, 2017
• Community Soft Exosuits for Neurorehabilitation Study
  April 24, 2017
• Community Warrior Web Exosuit Study
  April 24, 2017

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• Sep 14, 2017, 10:00am - 11:00am Wyss Event
  
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  Exoskeletal-Assisted Walking For Persons With Paralysis From Spinal Cord Injury
  Paralysis from spinal cord injury (SCI) results in a cascade of mobility, functional, medical, emotional, and social problems.  Once inpatient rehabilitation has been completed, people with SCI who are non-ambulators receive a wheelchair as standard of care.  Since 2010, powered exoskeletons have become available to allow people with partial to complete motor paralyses to stand... Free and open to public

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  How Humans Walk…With Robots
  Researchers at the Wyss Institute and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital shed light on how humans respond – or do not respond – to forces applied by rehabilitative robots. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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  Soft Robotic Glove
  The soft robotic glove under development at the Wyss Institute could one day be an assistive device used for grasping objects, which could help patients suffering from muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), incomplete spinal cord injury, or other hand impairments to regain some daily independence and control of their environment. This research is partially...