From mid-March to mid-April, the full Symbitron exoskeleton was used to train two test pilots with a complete spinal cord injury at Fondazione Santa Lucia in Rome. The Symbitron research team had to overcome quite some technical challenges but eventually succeeded to train the test pilots. Despite the short training time, one of the patients…
Project members of Delft University of Technology and University of Twente will continue their collaboration and join their forces in a Cybathlon team. Also physical therapist and rehabilitaion physicians from the Dutch rehabilitation centre Roessingh will particpate in this team. They will further develop the Symbitron modular exoskeleton and train two Dutch test pilots to walk…
On Friday May 18, we had the final review meeting of the Symbitron project at the University of Twente. During this review meeting, the modular exoskeleton developed within this project was demonstrated in its new home, the Wearable Robtics lab. Additionally, the latest results on training patients with a complete SCI to walk with this exoskeleton…