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Wearable Robots
A team of roboticists, engineers, biochemical experts, and apparel designers, have teamed up to make a light, functional “exosuit.” this wearable technology could help those with limited mobility traverse difficult terrain. Joining Hari Sreenivasan via google hangout is Sangjun lee, mechanical engineering graduate student at Harvard and co-author of the study.
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