A research team, spearheaded by Professor Fu Chenglong from the Southern University of Science and Technology, has successfully developed a wearable centaur load-bearing walking-assist robot. The research findings have been published in a renowned journal within the robotics domain. Traditional exoskeleton robots often suffer from limited assistance effectiveness, typically reducing the human body's metabolic rate by merely around 10%. The centaur robot, however, diverges from this norm by taking cues from the load-bearing postures of quadrupedal animals. It attaches to the human back via a wearable elastic coupling interface, thereby creating a human-machine hybrid quadrupedal system.
