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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2015
Posco, Pohang-si, KR;
POSCO, Pohang-si, KR;
Abstract
There is provided a wearable robot able to maintain a balanced state during operations thereof. The wearable robot includes: a wearable robot body; a travel unit for moving the wearable robot body; and a hip joint unit provided in the wearable robot body and coupled to the travel unit, for maintaining a posture of the wearable robot body in response to a movement of the travel unit. With this construction, the wearable robot is provided with a hip joint unit having a resilient force such that a posture of a wearable robot body can be maintained during an operation of the hip joint unit, so that the robot can be operated more stably. Further, because a posture of the wearable robot can be stably maintained so that the safety of the user can be guaranteed and operation efficiency can be improved.