Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“A wearable lower extremity assistive robot, which is worn on the lower extremities of a wearer to assist thewearer in walking, has a structure for assisting rotational force of the hip joint and rotational force of theknee joint of the wearer. Meanwhile, when a person walks, the hip joint and the knee joint rotate aboutthe left-right direction of the wearer as a central axis. Thus, in the case of a wearable lower extremityrobot according to the related art, both a part for assisting the rotational force of the hip joint and a partfor assisting the rotational force of the knee joint are configured to rotate about the left-right direction asa central axis.