Robotic exoskeleton

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This invention can be proved very useful for those people who are effected by stroke or debilitating injury. peaople uses method of physical therapy to overcome from that type of situations but that are not proved useful to them. But now they can change their lives with the new robotic exoskeleton made by a team of mechanical engineering students at University of Pennsylvania named as

 Titan Arm:  This is an efficient, lightweight, and surprisingly powerful robotic limb. 

Its actuator, or electronic muscle, could provide resistance during therapeutic exercises and can augment strength, allowing its wearer to lift an additional 40 pounds with little effort.

This will be very affordable exoskeleton which will be cost you very less.

To ensure a slimmer frame than other exoskeletons and make Titan Arm easier for patients to use, the team situated its actuator in a backpack instead of in the limb itself. They also milled load-bearing parts out of aluminum to limit weight and power consumption. McGill, the electronics lead, created a software-and-sensor package to track arm movements and wirelessly relay the data. This would allow a patient to use a Titan Arm at home and a therapist to remotely monitor the exercises.

The price is not revealed yet.  Potential beneficiaries, including stroke victims and an injured snowboarder, have already reached out to the team with encouraging comments.  This product developing  cost is only $2000 . They are now designing a more refined version. “We’ve been looking at 3-D printing to fully customize components, like tailoring a suit,” says Parrotta.

Main features are: 

1) Battery:

Lithium-polymer battery that can be worked for whole day.

2) MUSCLE:

An electric motor in the backpack winds steel cables to rotate pulleys and induce arm movement. Beattie (left) designed a support system to safely distribute weight across a hip belt, elbow straps, and back plate.

3)Development cost:

$2000 .

Conclusion:

This technique can change the lives of many people and can be worked as a hope for the physically challenged people. This technology  in its  developing stage but it can be proved very suceeful in near future and many people get benifit from it.