- Hyundai Motor Group showcases ‘X-ble MEX’ wearable rehabilitation robotic in aiding injured troopers’ restoration with launch of its ‘10M March’ marketing campaign video
- ‘X-ble MEX’, developed by the Group’s Robotics LAB, aids muscle restoration, joint motion and complicated movement past primary strolling help
- Video narration supplied by Paralympic medalist Ji-hoon Lee; additionally options 1000’s of supportive messages made on the Group’s social media channels
Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) has showcased using its ‘X-ble Medical Exoskeleton (X-ble MEX)’ strolling rehabilitation robotic in aiding the restoration of injured troopers with the discharge of a brand new marketing campaign video titled ‘10M March’. The video will be considered on the Group’s official YouTube channel right here.
The video, created in collaboration with the Korean Armed Forces Medical Command, paperwork using ‘X-ble MEX’ on the Armed Forces Capital Hospital and delivers 1000’s of heart-warming messages of assist from the general public to the injured troopers. The ‘10M March’ marketing campaign attracts inspiration from the day by day rehabilitation routine of injured troopers, likening the hospital hall to a protracted march.
‘10M March’ portrays injured troopers utilizing ‘X-ble MEX’ to beat the challenges of rehabilitation. The wearable exoskeleton reduces the bodily burden on medical employees and is designed to make the rehabilitation course of safer and extra manageable.
Donated by the Group to the Armed Forces Capital Hospital final August, ‘X-ble MEX’ is a complicated medical rehabilitation robotic developed by the Group’s Robotics LAB. The identify X-ble MEX is mixture of the Group’s wearable robotic model ‘X-ble’ and Medical Exoskeleton. The Group’s wearable robotic model X-ble is derived from the time period ‘X’, signalling the infinite potential of robotics expertise, and the phrase ‘in a position’, that means that something will be realized.
Developed for the aim of decrease muscle reconstruction, the robotic aids strolling rehabilitation and helps complicated coaching actions past easy strolling help.
By means of a real-time actuator management system, the robotic helps sufferers transfer independently by aiding them with the energy wanted to keep up steadiness for strolling. It additionally helps varied actions comparable to sitting, standing, strolling, rotating and climbing stairs, which enormously enhances therapy effectivity and might encourage sufferers on their rehabilitation journey.
‘X-ble MEX’ additionally reduces the burden on medical employees by aiding affected person motion. The robotic can steadiness and scale back damage danger, because it lowers the prospect of the affected person falling backwards.
The video’s narration is supplied by Ji-hoon Lee, a nationwide determine who gained a bronze medal in ice hockey on the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics following rehabilitation from an damage throughout his navy service. The video’s supportive messages are based mostly on over one thousand feedback made on the Group’s SNS channels.
Below the social duty message of ‘The Proper Transfer for the Proper Future’, the Group is conducting varied social contribution actions in the important thing areas of mobility, security and atmosphere for future generations.
Final August, the Group additionally donated its second-generation ‘X-ble MEX’ to the Armed Forces Capital Hospital’s rehabilitation therapy division. The Group intends to proceed utilizing superior mobility expertise in varied assist actions, aiming to allow the mobility deprived to maneuver freely sooner or later.
X-ble MEX Specs
Weight |
20 kg |
Top |
160 – 190 cm, Adjustable body to suit physique dimension |
Pace |
1.2 km/h most strolling pace |
Max stair top |
25 cm |
Battery run time |
1h 30m (weight 85 kg, strolling pace 0.75 km/h throughout sustained strolling) |
Max load |
100 kg |