TOKYO (AP) — Toyota is introducing a wearable robotic leg brace designed to help partially paralyzed people walk. The Welwalk WW-1000 system is made up of a motorized mechanical frame that fits on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has agreed to pay for robotic legs that could allow scores of paralyzed veterans with spinal cord injuries to walk again. Veterans have been petitioning the VA to do ...

SAN DIEGO — A Marine who was left paralyzed by a sniper’s bullet in Afghanistan fulfilled a promise to himself on Friday and walked using robotic leg braces in a ceremony at Camp Pendleton, where he ...

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 ...