Medical Futurist August 8, 2024
Pranavsingh Dhunnoo

With over a dozen FDA approved exoskeletons and 84 existing medical products on the market we must prepare for great advancements in this segment.

Science fiction has for long fantasized about ways to augment fragile humans’ power and endurance through mechanical means. In Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise’s abilities are enhanced via a combat jacket. Humans in Avatar board the AMP suit to tread the deadly environment on Pandora. Such depictions of exoskeletons – or wearable mechanical structures that attach to joints to assist and/or enhance strength and endurance for motion – have left the realm of science fiction and have become part of our reality.

Back in 2014, a paraplegic man suited in a robotic exoskeleton made the symbolic...

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