http://accessibility.net.nz/blog/rex-the-robotic-exoskeleton/ Your web accessibility expert Fri, 18 May 2012 00:02:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://accessibility.net.nz/blog/rex-the-robotic-exoskeleton/#comment-869 Mimi Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:02:01 +0000 http://accessibility.net.nz/?p=155#comment-869 Absolutely. 100% agree. Plus, the EasyStand at a fraction of the price already can fulfill some of these benefits. Absolutely. 100% agree. Plus, the EasyStand at a fraction of the price already can fulfill some of these benefits.

]]> http://accessibility.net.nz/blog/rex-the-robotic-exoskeleton/#comment-867 Elisabeth Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:56:16 +0000 http://accessibility.net.nz/?p=155#comment-867 The IBOT looks much more practical than the REX and less awkward. Yet the price made it going out of business. Apart from the price, the REX is awfully slow. Common people, once one gets used to the speed of the chair on nice flat surfaces like in a store, even walking speed is too slow. Would I want to go even slower? No way. And how are you going to push a cart and walk at the same time? As for the other benefits, most of those are just to make the paraplegic to be perceived more normal. The only benefit I see with the REX is for medical reasons that Nic mentioned. But aren't there much cheaper ways to strengthen the bones by bearing the weight? Thank you but no thank you, I'll keep my speed of about 9km/h with a basket on my lap when I shop. And I will ask a handsome man around to hand me an article from the top shelf. And I will continue asking my friends to sit down when they talk to me... The IBOT looks much more practical than the REX and less awkward. Yet the price made it going out of business.
Apart from the price, the REX is awfully slow. Common people, once one gets used to the speed of the chair on nice flat surfaces like in a store, even walking speed is too slow. Would I want to go even slower? No way. And how are you going to push a cart and walk at the same time?
As for the other benefits, most of those are just to make the paraplegic to be perceived more normal.
The only benefit I see with the REX is for medical reasons that Nic mentioned. But aren't there much cheaper ways to strengthen the bones by bearing the weight?
Thank you but no thank you, I'll keep my speed of about 9km/h with a basket on my lap when I shop. And I will ask a handsome man around to hand me an article from the top shelf. And I will continue asking my friends to sit down when they talk to me…

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