Caltech plans to test the first medical exoskeleton that literally gets its marching orders from a user's brain.
MIT Technology Review
The exoskeletons help provide an extra five to 15 pounds of force per arm.
The exoskeletons help provide an extra five to 15 pounds of force per arm.
‘You’re a Quadriplegic’: New Reality for a Las Vegas Victim
Kim Gervais and two friends went to hear country music. Then the gunfire began. She was gravely injured, one of her friends died and one survived.
The technology, developed by US researchers, captures instructions issued by the brain and transmits them through electrical stimulation to muscles in the wrist, hand and fingers.
“We see the world of robotics as having a giant wave of human augmentation coming right at it. People will be running faster, jumping further and grannies will be showing off their new hip exoskeleton.”
"So the doctor immediately made a diagnosis of drug overdose," Eby says. A couple of days later, the health team figured out that Ramirez's problem was actually bleeding in his brain. But by then he'd suffered lasting damage. "The guy ended up quadriplegic," Eby says.
An exoskeleton (from Greek ἔξω, éxō "outer" and σκελετός, skeletos "skeleton") is the external skeleton that supports and protects an animal's body, in contrast to the internal skeleton (endoskeleton) of, for example, a human.
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quadriplegia
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Pronunciation: /ˌkwɒdrɪˈpliːdʒə
/[形][名]四肢麻痺の（人）.
NOUN
[ MASS NOUN] Medicine
Derivatives
Externally organised event
17th July 2013
Henry Moore Institute Seminar Room, 6-8pm
Peripherique is a series of informal events at the Henry Moore Institute. Organised by our Information Assistant Team, Peripherique invites artists who have previously worked Front of House to discuss their work. Our July event features Richard Taylor (who worked at the Institute between November 2007 and July 2009) presenting his current research.
In this talk-cum-performance, Richard Taylor discusses how he has incorporated writing and drawing into his sculptural installations and collaborative performance pieces.
Its "Top 100 Global Innovators" report rates companies by the proportion of their patent applications that are granted; the number of "quadrilateral" patents (those granted in China, Europe, Japan and America);
'Equilateral'
By KEN KALFUS
Reviewed by ANDREA WULF
A British astronomer attempts to signal Mars in Ken Kalfus's novel.
A Quad bike is recognised by UK law as a vehicle with four wheels and a mass of less than 550 kg.[1][2] To drive a quad bike on a public road, in the UK, requires a B1 licence as well as tax, insurance and registration.
A Yamaha Quad bike
Quad bike two-wheel trick-riding on sand dune.
quad
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(kwŏd'rə-lăt'ər-əl)
n. Mathematics
A polygon having four sides.
adj.
Having four sides.
bilateral
(bī-lăt'ər-əl)
adj.
bilaterally bi·lat'er·al·ly adv.
bilateralness bi·lat'er·al·ness n.
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Pronunciation: /ˌkwɒdrɪˈpliːdʒə
/[形][名]四肢麻痺の（人）.
NOUN
Origin
Paraplegia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Paraplegia is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities. The word comes from Ionic Greek: παραπληγίη "half-striking". It is usually ...Paraplegic | Define Paraplegic at Dictionary.com
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Paraplegic definition, paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury. See more.
Quadriplegic | Definition of Quadriplegic by Merriam-Webster
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one affected with paralysis of both arms and both legs. quad·ri·ple·gia play \-j(ē-)əGive me your rhombus, I want to play without instructions
Richard Taylor, Peripherique lectureExternally organised event
17th July 2013
Henry Moore Institute Seminar Room, 6-8pm
Richard Taylor
'Cast little shadow Keep adroit'
2012
Pencil and oil on paper
Image courtesy Richard Taylor
'Cast little shadow Keep adroit'
2012
Pencil and oil on paper
Image courtesy Richard Taylor
Peripherique is a series of informal events at the Henry Moore Institute. Organised by our Information Assistant Team, Peripherique invites artists who have previously worked Front of House to discuss their work. Our July event features Richard Taylor (who worked at the Institute between November 2007 and July 2009) presenting his current research.
In this talk-cum-performance, Richard Taylor discusses how he has incorporated writing and drawing into his sculptural installations and collaborative performance pieces.
Its "Top 100 Global Innovators" report rates companies by the proportion of their patent applications that are granted; the number of "quadrilateral" patents (those granted in China, Europe, Japan and America);
'Equilateral'
By KEN KALFUS
Reviewed by ANDREA WULF
A British astronomer attempts to signal Mars in Ken Kalfus's novel.
A Quad bike is recognised by UK law as a vehicle with four wheels and a mass of less than 550 kg.[1][2] To drive a quad bike on a public road, in the UK, requires a B1 licence as well as tax, insurance and registration.
quad
Pronunciation: /kwɒd/
NOUN
3A radio aerial in the form of a square or rectanglebroken in the middle of one side.
[abbreviation of quadrilateral]
ADJECTIVE
informalBack to toprhombus
- rhom • bus
- 発音
- rɑ'mbəs | rɔ'm-
- rhombusの変化形
- rhombuses (複数形)
[名]（複 〜・es, -bi 〔-bai〕）
1 ひし形, 斜方形.
2 菱面(りょうめん)体.quadrilateral(kwŏd'rə-lăt'ər-əl)
n. Mathematics
A polygon having four sides.
adj.
Having four sides.
bilateral
(bī-lăt'ər-əl)
adj.
- Having or formed of two sides; two-sided.
- Affecting or undertaken by two sides equally; binding on both parties: a bilateral agreement; bilateral negotiations.
- Relating to the right and left sides of the body or of a body structure.
- Having or marked by bilateral symmetry.
bilaterally bi·lat'er·al·ly adv.
bilateralness bi·lat'er·al·ness n.
equilateral
adjective
having all its sides of the same length:- 音節
- èqui • láteral
- equilateralの変化形
- equilaterals (複数形)
━━[名]等辺形；（他の辺に対する）等辺.
èqui・láteral・ly
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