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Hyundai’s Exoskeletons with Sangin Park

Hyundai

by Audrow Nash

14 May 2018

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In this interview, Audrow Nash speaks with Sangin Park, Senior Research Engineer at Hyundai, about exoskeletons. Park describes three exoskeleton prototypes: one for helping workers reduce back pain, one for assisting a person with paraplegia, and an exoskeleton for soldiers. Park discusses the sensors and actuators of each exoskeleton, as well as Hyundai’s exoskeleton ambitions.

Sangin Park

Sangin Park is a Senior Research Engineer at Hyundai.

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tags: Actuation, c-Health-Medicine, cx-Industrial-Automation, exoskeleton, podcast, Research, Robotics technology

Audrow Nash is a Software Engineer at Open Robotics and the host of the Sense Think Act Podcast

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