ReWalk™, the first commercially viable upright walking assistance tool, enables wheelchair users with lower-limb disabilities to stand, walk, and even climb stairs.
For potentially millions of wheelchair users, ReWalk™ delivers a new perspective — on the world, on themselves, and on life.
ReWalk™ restores wheelchair users’ dignity, health, inclusion, and self-esteem.

Coming along nicely. With the advent of new actuation we will see full, if not greater range of motion available in bionic arms by the end of 2010.
Looking forward …
Thanks to New Scientist, Elsevier and The Lancet.

HAL 5 or Hybrid Assistive Limb 5 is a robot suit (aka artificial powered exoskeleton) developed by Yoshiyuki Sankai who is the professor of Tsukuba University of Japan.
HAL 5 is currently capable of allowing the operator to lift and carry nearly twice as much weight as they could lift and carry unaided.

Rad.
Two recent posts come to mind. One and two. Check ‘em out.
Combine a mechanical arm with a miniature rocket motor: The result is a prosthetic device that is the closest thing yet to a bionic arm.
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Update: DR carried the vid I link it here. Thanks, Noah.

Interesting.
The heart is not completely artificial, FYI.
Peter Houghton is grateful for his artificial heart. After all, it has saved his life. He’s just a little wistful about emotions. He wishes he could feel them like he used to. Houghton is the first permanent lifetime recipient of a Jarvik 2000 left ventricular assist device. Seven years […]

We covered this 8 days ago. I came across this video this morning showcasing the hand working up close.
Absolutely amazing! Thanks to DR for the heads up.

This is an ADVANCED PROSTHESIS. Amazing to see the work this firm is doing. The prosthetics appear nimble and responsive.
Soon we’ll cross the dividing line of quality and usability. I don’t portend the emergence of mass-elective amputations when the prosthetic technology reaches a level where its desirability surpasses that of our standard […]