With a drone camera, a survivor is spotted in the rubble."My idea is to help people such as firefighters with my machines," Izu, 61, told AFP.
It was Attraclab that co-developed the small delivery robot squeezing through the cardboard rubble at the Japan Mobility Show and designed the remote-control stretcher on wheels or tracks.
Engineers at the University of Houston have validated a portable brain-computer interface that connects the brain of stroke patients to powered exoskeletons for rehabilitation, an advance that could bring stroke recovery into the home.
Asking users the dollar value of the costs and benefits of walking in exoskeletons is a better way of finding out how users feel about them than measuring calories saved.