A powered exoskeleton is a wearable mobile machine that is powered by a system of electric motors, pneumatics, levers, hydraulics, or a combination of technologies that allow for limb movement with increased strength and endurance
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Yes, your thinking is absolutely correct and timely.But Power source is the biggest challenge for such kind of robots.If pneumatics compressor is an additional burden unless it is a wheelchair to accommodate.
The input commands may be more tricky for the user than the programmer/developer. Note the bioelectrical impulses evident in muscle use, how does one train to use that non-existent muscle? This is something that I have been pondering as of late. As non-existent muscle use would be difficult to teach, but I imagine it would not be impossible to learn. Though I think of someone who does not have the manual dexterity (such as the actor William Shatner's comment in his autobiography on his inability to preform the Vulcan salute in the TV show 'Star Trek'), trying to learn to behave a particular way takes a great deal of practice. Would that person (again, consider Shatner) be able to enable their exoskeleton's functions as well as they would desire, or is it actually impossible? Or perhaps, if the input was provided by ulterior means (e.g. finger movement "mapped" to an exoskeleton's leg appendages) though it is rather simplistic in the coding, what happens when the user requires their fingers (or whatever ulterior input means) for another function? All this sheds some of the difficulties on the prescribed device's functionality, though in theory, it is possible and highly sought after (for good reason) in the bio-engineering community. I only mention this if you happen to be trying to develop such a system, as the challenge to the input methods in this sort of situation seem to equal the challenge in the output functions.
there are many limitations with the current technology which require patients to use crutches to support them and increase balance or limitations in battery life and power which allow to use it for small amount of times and need to be recharged again and there are many problems associated with the technology limitations. However in the future, it is expected for exoskeleton industry and technology to grow up