Boston Globe Online / Business / Robots to wear
By Scott Kisner, 8/27/2001
`We put people in robots.''
That isn't the official slogan of Yobotics, a South Boston company spun off from one of MIT's best-known robotics labs, but it might as well be. It's a phrase that captures the most promising new direction in robotics. Forget about C-3PO and Rosie the Robot Maid. Some of your best friends will be part-robot, surviving thanks to devices like the Abiomed artificial heart - essentially an implantable robotic pump - or wearing robotic braces like those being developed by Yobotics to assist them in walking and climbing stairs.
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