Putting a price on exoskeleton assistance puts users in the driver's seat of honing the tech
How much would these robo-boots be worth to you? Neurobionic Lab/University of Michigan Robotics Department, CC BY-NDThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea My colleagues and I have used a tool from economics to measure the costs and benefits of wearing an exoskeleton, and we found that it offers a modest average benefit of US$3.40 per hour while walking uphill, when considering the combined effects of the assistance and device weight. This modest value i
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