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The EU FET Symbitron project gathered researchers from 5 European countries to build wearable exoskeletons to help people who have suffered a spinal cord injury to walk again. The next step is to prepare the robot to compete at the Cybathlon games in 2020 in Zurich.
One of the main challenges to be faced was to overcome the traditional engineering design approach, which often focuses almost exclusively on technological issues and only partially takes into account the perspective and clinical needs of users. The Symbitron project put the patients at the center of the exoskeleton design paradigm, trying to tailor the technology around their body, their mind and the residual communication between them that is still possible. From the very beginning of the project, 13 patients with SCI, each one with unique clinical features related to specific spinal cord damage, were involved as part of the experimental team and considered as “test pilots” of the machine to be developed.
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