Exoskeletons and Other Technology to Mitigate or Reverse the Frailty of the Elderly

April 12, 2010 | Source: Next Big Future

The Wearable Agri Robot (for aging Japanese farmers), the ReWalk (for lower-limb-mobility-impaired adults), the HAL-5 robot suit (boosts strength by ten times), and Biotime’s recent reversal of the aging of human cells (they restored the length of the telomeres in cells back to an embryonic state) are among the emerging technologies targeted to the elderly.