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Soft Exoskeleton and Supernumerary Limbs for Human Augmentation
This special issue belongs to the section “Actuators for Medical Instruments“.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human augmentation is an academic research field that aims to enhance, promote, and expand a person's abilities, not only to supplement or compensate for missing abilities or to maintain abilities. The services expected from human-enhancing machines and tools are not limited to the extension of motor, sensory, and cognitive abilities of a person, or the extension of skills and work performance in using machines and tools, but also include the development of communication, education, training, medical care, and nursing care based on a long-term understanding of the relationships between people and people, and between people and tools.
Prof. Dr. Yuichi Kurita
Prof. Dr. Takayuki Tanaka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- augmentation of human health through digital technologies
- augmented sport
- bionic systems for amplification and augmentation of human abilities
- co-robots for human augmentation
- digital technologies for physical, cognitive, mental, and perceptional augmentation
- exoskeletons and assistive devices for the amplification of human physical strength and physiological sensing
- implanted technologies and interfaces
- sensing for context awareness
- sensors and actuators for smart artifacts and smart textiles
- supernumerary robotic limbs
- technologies to improve human experience and to reduce stress
- tele-manipulation and tele-existence using robotics technology
- training and rehabilitation technology
- wearable computing and ubiquitous computing for augmenting human capabilities
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Actuators - ISSN 2076-0825