Centaur-style wearable robot cuts walking fatigue by 35%
TL;DR
Chinese researchers developed a centaur-style wearable that adds two legs behind the user via an elastic back interface, sharing load and lowering metabolic energy use by about 35% (with ~52% less foot pressure) when carrying ~20 kg, allowing longer, natural walking; designed to coordinate with movement and balance, it could aid heavy tasks in logistics, disaster response, and industry, and was described in The International Journal of Robotics Research.
Topics:scienceai-and-robotics#ai-and-robotics#centaur-robot#energy-efficiency#human-robot-collaboration#load-carrying#wearable-robotics
Centaur-style wearable robot adds 2 legs to cut walking effort by 35% Interesting Engineering
Want the full story? Read the original reporting
Read on Interesting Engineering