{"id":3633,"date":"2017-03-28T16:08:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2017-03-28T16:08:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:08:41","slug":"china-made-wearable-robot-enter-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/03\/28\/china-made-wearable-robot-enter-market\/","title":{"rendered":"China-made wearable robot to enter market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A China-made wearable robot, which can help disabled people walk, is expected to enter the market in one to two years, the developer has said.<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Fourier X1, developed by Chinese technology start-up Fourier Intelligence, was unveiled in Shanghai earlier this month, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Gu Jie, CEO of Fourier, said the Fourier X1 weighed 20 kg and applied industrial design into the exoskeleton. It can assist with walking for people who have had a stroke or spinal cord injuries.<\/p>\n<p>He said the company aimed to make the robot more affordable than foreign models such as ReWalk and Cyberdyne currently on the market.<\/p>\n<p>Prices of the Fourier X1 robots are expected to be a third cheaper than similar foreign models, which are sold between 600,000 yuan ($87,000) and 1 million yuan ($1,45000) each.<\/p>\n<p>Gu said the company was working to test and improve the robot\u2019s various functions such as sitting, standing, walking and climbing stairs.<\/p>\n<p>The Fourier X1 has four motors, two for the hips and two for the knees, as well as four batteries inside that enable it to work for seven hours.<\/p>\n<p>China has 80 million disabled people, many of them unable to walk. The global market for walk-assisting exoskeleton robots is estimated to exceed $1.8 billion by 2020.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Picture source: Alamy Image<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Image used for illustrative purposes<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A China-made wearable robot, which can help disabled people walk, is expected to enter the market in one to two years, the developer has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}