{"id":161683,"date":"2022-12-18T22:56:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T22:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/these-real-world-iron-man-boots-gave-me-a-robotic-spring-in-my-step\/"},"modified":"2022-12-18T22:56:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T22:56:05","slug":"these-real-world-iron-man-boots-gave-me-a-robotic-spring-in-my-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/these-real-world-iron-man-boots-gave-me-a-robotic-spring-in-my-step\/","title":{"rendered":"These ‘Real-World Iron Man’ Boots Gave Me a Robotic Spring in My Step"},"content":{"rendered":"
The future of walking assistance might not come from a cane or a walking frame, but instead from a pair of robotic exoskeleton boots. <\/p>\n
That’s the vision of researchers at Stanford University’s Biomechatronics Lab, who’ve developed their first untethered exoskeleton designed to give people a motorized boost to their step as they walk. I’ve come to Stanford for CNET’s What the Future<\/span> video series to put the exoskeletons through their paces (quite literally) and see if my speedy walk can be powered up, superhero style. <\/p>\n Patrick Slade, the postdoctoral scholar behind the exoskeleton design, has given me a lot of hope on that front. <\/p>\n