For my free post this week I found another invention off of
a list of the 10 best biomedical inventions. I chose to look into something
called eLEGS. I found the projects main sight and instead of reading about it I
decided to mix things up and watch a video about the project instead. These legs
are a robotic exoskeleton that can help a paralyzed person to walk. The bulk of
the system is in a backpack type thing then there are long pieces that connect
to large knee pieces then again down to the bottom of the feet. Once into the
suit you would be able to stand on the feet and, with the aid of walkers, a
person can walk. John Fogalin, who worked on the project, was excited about how
this project encompassed lots of different fields. He said “It’s an integration
of so many interesting talents: Mechanical engineering, electrical engineering,
programing, control, and when you bring all those together, that’s when you get
a really innovative product” (Berkly Bionics). I think that the fact that this
was a joint project between multiple disciplines was one of the cooler parts of
this project. It is cool that so many different people came together to make
such an amazing invention. The best thing about this project is that people who
had lost their ability to walk now have hope that they can regain a majority of
their movement. It must be so hard to be somebody who is healthy and mobile and
then experience an accident that leaves you without the use of your legs. This
invention can help bring people their lives back.
Work Cited
“Berkley Bionics:
Introducing eLEGS”. Berkley Bionics. YouTube. YouTube. 6 Oct 2010. Web. 7 Nov
2013
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