It’s like a chair that isn’t there, but magically appears whenever you need it. It’s called the Chairless Chair and you wear it on your legs like an exoskeleton: when it’s not activated, you can walk normally or even run. And then, at the touch of a button, it locks into place and you can sit down on it. Like a chair that is now there.
noonee® offers wearable mechatronic technology based on research from the Bio-Inspired Robotics laboratory at ETH Zurich. noonee’s pending patent, Chairless Chair®, technology is a powered, lightweight and energy efficient lower limb (legs) posture support device. It is designed for static as well as dynamic industrial market applications to increase the users’ health, comfort and productivity.
The Chairless Chair® is a lightweight, power efficient mechatronic device that is worn on the legs. It allows the wearer/user to walk or run when it is not activated. However, once activated, the Chairless Chair® uses a lightweight portable variable damper to engage and hold the users’ bodyweight, and thereby relieves the stress on leg muscles and joints. The user just needs to move into the desired pose, activate the Chairless Chair® and profit from the provided posture support.
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