PERCRO Whole body exoskeleton for human power augmentation ( Body Extender)

The PERCRO laboratory of Scuola Superiore Sant Anna has recently completed the development and functional assessment of the Body Extender system, an advanced wearable robot expressly conceived for augmenting the human strength for handling of heavy materials in unstructured environment. The system is composed by four robotic limbs with anthropomorphic kinematics and has a total of 22 independently actuated degrees of freedom. The leg locomotion and the force servoamplification allow operations in environme