TOKYO -- Japan's Cyberdyne will open a medical center in the U.S. state of Florida to conduct clinical trials for its wearable robotic suit, which the company thinks can help paralyzed patients regain lower limb function.
The specialized center will operate inside a Brooks Rehabilitation hospital as early as this year. The trials will seek improvements in the ability of patients to walk using the Hybrid Assistive Limb robot. Brooks physicians received training on how to use the robots at Cyberdyne's headquarters in the Ibaraki Prefecture city of Tsukuba.
