Artificial exoskeleton is an emerging technology with two main purposes: First, is to restore action capacity which handicapped scanty has; second, to give extra strength for normal people to break bottleneck of human’s ability.

But there are many problems with the exoskeleton currently. Because of exoskeleton is designed to sustain entire body, that causes the exoskeleton using steel material, and been very heavy, which also limit the actions of people.

For conquering this issue, Taiwan ITRI is developing new technologies of exoskeleton to improve the practicability of exoskeleton. They focus on the lightweight material/ structure, high-performance drive modules, and adaptive gait control, for providing more quality and affordable exoskeleton aids.

ITRI has initiated the development of lightweight metal and carbon fiber structure heterojunction technology for integrated structure and drive modules. Meanwhile, ITRI also set up a manufacturing process with low manpower and low expense.

In addition, to improve the efficiency of walking, ITRI has also developed a multi-operating point drive module, providing different torque for exoskeleton under different situations, to speed up the walking speed.

And in outward appearance terms, the exoskeleton will be more integrated with the user, to make it more similar to ordinary person in walking, even up and down stairs.