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 ...

A commercial robotic leg could potentially benefit both higher- and lower-mobility amputees, University of Michigan roboticists have shown for the first time. The leg provided the largest gains when ...

Although robotic prosthetic legs do have some advantages over their conventional counterparts, they also have some drawbacks that keep them from entering wider use. A new prototype prosthesis, however ...

Toyota is putting some of its car research into helping people walk again. On Wednesday, the company launched a robotic leg brace, the Welwalk WW-100. The motorised device is designed to help ...

2025 is the year of the exoskeletons. They have been around for a while, and not just in sci-fi novels and movies. I tried Enhanced Robotics’ Sportsmate 5 back in 2022, and even though it was an ...