Wearable tails help elderly folks keep their balance

About 25 million years after our ancestors traded theirs for an upright stance, a research team at Keio University Graduate School of Media Design gave our long-lost tails a comeback tour. The prototype, dubbed Arque, was a meter-long wearable robot designed to help elderly users with balance problems. — Read the rest The post Wearable tails help elderly folks keep their balance appeared first on Boing Boing.