Assistive Technology

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Assistive technology (AT) is any item, piece of equipment, software program, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities.

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Novel front-loading exoskeleton gets paralyzed patients up and walking (newatlas.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Only the ones who can afford the thousands upon thousands to use it/repair it/maintain though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's how tech starts. Title says it's novel. Even a 9 function calculator was high tech one day in the past. A digital one was an unreachable price for most. Now you have one bundled into another device and probably don't even use it often.

It's cool that this exists because before now it didn't at ANY price.