SFU’s robotic exoskeleton designed to help people with disabilities walk again

Of the never-ending display of digital innovations and ideas crammed into the Vancouver Convention Centre for the B.C. Tech Summit, one stood out from the rest.
The wearable robotic exoskeleton literally stood out, its pumps, pedals and pistons strapped on a human-size mannequin suspended from the floor to make it look like a futuristic action movie villain that towered over six feet tall.
And it’s promise is equally as striking: That it will allow those who can’t walk the ability to