For years, assistive mechanical devices, such as robotic arms, hands and legs, have helped patients improve function and gain mobility – and now a robotic tail is showing promise for balancing ...

Classes such as “UpRight! Balance Training” help seniors prevent falls, which can cause bruises, fractured hips and head injuries and even lead to death. Older adults who fall once are twice as likely ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - If you want to shape up this season, you might want to do a few things you did in your childhood. You often think of going for physical therapy after an injury, but according to ...

Researchers and engineers from the University of California, Berkeley, developed a robot named Salto, inspired by squirrels, that can jump from branch to branch and land on narrow perches while ...

To investigate how the body's ability to sense head movements can contribute to balance control and guidance control--two critical aspects of bipedal locomotion--the researchers stimulated nerves that ...

Research involving “remote-controlled people” shows that the brain uses precise information about head movement and orientation to control walking direction and balance. The work could lead to new ...

The primary goal of the CoBaL lab is to understand the neural and biomechanical basis of human upright balance. The bipedal human is inherently unstable and needs a sophisticated control system to ...

Biologists and engineers designed an approach to increase the chances of a robot achieving upright and balanced landings without needing great grip strength, by controlling the forces along its leg.

To investigate how the body's ability to sense head movements can contribute to balance control and guidance control--two critical aspects of bipedal locomotion--the researchers stimulated nerves that ...