When it comes to teaching people to walk again, the cool robotic exosuit — “I am Iron Man!,” you might joke — you wear while walking a treadmill might not be as helpful as it is cool.
In some advanced facilities, it's becoming more common for an exoskeleton to be used as people rehabilitate while walking on a treadmill. But research published this week in the journal Science Robotics has identified a major design flaw in these systems.
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