Cyborg legs make the handicapped walk?
Cyberdyne has started renting “a mind-controlled wearable machine that gives humans enhanced mobility.” Sensors on the skin detect traces of nerve signals from the brain, synchronizing the power suit’s movements with the user’s own limbs! But besides
its obvious applications for the handicapped, the exoskeleton also increases strength and endurance — and rents for just $2,300 a month.
And now DARPA has a program called Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation “to develop devices and machines that will increase the speed, strength and endurance of soldiers in combat environments”…