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Stair negotiation made easier using novel interactive energy-recycling assistive stairs

Here we show that novel, energy-recycling stairs reduce the amount of work required for humans to both ascend and descend stairs. Our low-power, interactive, and modular steps can be placed on existing staircases, storing energy during stair descent and returning that energy to the user during stair...

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Autores principales: Song, Yun Seong, Ha, Sehoon, Hsu, Hsiang, Ting, Lena H., Liu, C. Karen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5507489/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28700719
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179637