Exoskeleton

If you can't get enough of tardigrades — those tough, tubby microscopic critters with eight squirmy legs — you'll love this newly discovered microinvertebrate.  Behold, the "mold pig." Discovered by paleobiologist and entomologist George Poinar Jr. of Ore…

An analysis of 30-million-year-old amber has resulted in the discovery of a previously unknown microscopic creature from the Cenozoic period. Bearing a resemblance to tardigrades (aka water bears), these now-extinct mold pigs, as theyve been dubbed, are unlik…

This is a video of a Theraphosa Stirmi (burgundy goliath bird eater tarantula) shedding its exoskeleton over the course of several hours, timelapsed down to only 22 seconds. That's good, because I'm not sure how much more of this I could have stood. I mean, u…

Fossils preserved in Dominican amber reveal a new family, genus and species of microinvertebrate from the mid-Tertiary period, a discovery that shows unique lineages of the tiny creatures were living 30 million years ago.The findings by George Poinar Jr. of t…

A quadriplegic man was able to walk again using an experimental robotic body suit which he controlled with his brain. The exoskeleton was developed by a team of researchers at the University of Grenoble in France, who hope that their proof-of-concept demonstr…

Numerous exoskeletons have been in the news over the last few years, with some of the more exciting ones looking like they came out of Edge of Tomorrow and some of the less exciting ones looking like they’d probably hinder users more than they’d help. But whi…

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By Reuters GRENOBLE, France (Reuters) – The French tetraplegic man who has been able to walk again using a pioneering four-limb robotic system, or exoskeleton, said walking was a major feat for him after being immobile for years. The pioneering four-limb ro…

French researchers say a paralyzed 28-year-old man was able to use a mind-controlled robotic suit to walk for the first time since he experienced a severe cervical spine injury four years ago. In a report published in The Lancet Neurology journal, researcher…

GRENOBLE, France (Reuters) - The French tetraplegic man who has been able to walk again using a pioneering four-limb robotic system, or exoskeleton, said walking was a major feat for him after being immobile for years. The French scientists behind the syste…