Young-bo Shim, the head of SAIT’s Mechatronics Lab, and his team have developed a product they call the Gait Enhancing Motivation System or GEMS. It’s a walking assistant designed to help wearers improve strength and balance. Shim believes it could one day help workers with physically-demanding jobs as well as assist disabled users and senior citizens.
It takes about a minute to strap the system over my trousers and onto my hips. Fortunately, it’s lightweight, at just over 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds). The system is sleek with no extra buttons or dials. A set of oblong white disks containing sensors and motors are positioned on the sides of my hips and at the small of my back. I take a few quick steps ... and then I start to feel it.
There’s a tingling sensation from the sensors located on my hips. Those sensors measure and predict my gait based on just a few steps. And then, in a very subtle way, the technology lifts my legs with every step. I feel an added assist as if someone is underneath me and guiding me forward.
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