WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators have approved a first-of-a-kind set of robotic leg braces that can help some disabled people walk again. The ReWalk system functions like an exoskeleton for ...

Support VTDigger’s local nonprofit news and you could win a $250 gift card to Johnson Woolen Mills. Kiel Alarcon tries out his motorized leg brace in his Windsor apartment in October. He began ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WPVI) -- Some paralyzed veterans could soon be getting high-tech gear to help them walk again, thanks to a decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs. This is a big break for ...

Marine Capt. Derek Herrera, who was paralyzed by a sniper’s bullet two years ago in southern Afghanistan, is walking again thanks to a set of robotic leg braces known as the ReWalk system. Herrera is ...

The Indego exoskeleton is a set of motorized robotic leg braces that support and move the legs of people who can’t walk on their own. Parker Hannifin is seeking FDA approval for the device.

BERKELEY, Calif. -- Move over Bionic Man and make room for BLEEX -- the Berkeley Lower Extremities Exoskeleton, with strap-on robotic legs designed to turn an ordinary human into a super strider.

A new kind of robotic leg braces that are controlled by small voltage fluctuations of the brain, as read by an electroencephalogram (EEG) placed over the head, could pave the way for overcoming ...