On Thursday morning, just after sunrise, I pulled into the car park at the foot of Ben Nevis. Only a handful of other hikers were there, preparing to hike the hulking peak, but with a day of endless blue skies ahead of us, I knew the peace wouldn’t last long. So I hurriedly jumped out, stretched, and pulled on my robotic legs.
I’ve got a perfectly adequate pair of human legs (well, they’ve been subject a new ACL and a few meniscus repairs, but what do you expect from a 43-year-old avid hiker?) but after I wrote an article about Hypershell’s new exoskeleton – a robotic leg brace powered by an AI-controlled engine that helps boost leg strength and reduce exertion – the Shanghai-based company got in touch to ask me if I’d like to test one out.
