Pak, Yo Joon
Koike, Akira
Watanabe, Hiroki
Terai, Tomoko
Kubota, Hiroshi
Takahashi, Masahumi
Konno, Hirotomo
Kato, Jo
Nishi, Isao
Sato, Akira
Kawamoto, Hiroaki
Aonuma, Kazutaka
Ieda, Masaki
Sankai, Yoshiyuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan (JP17K09485)
Article History
Received: 27 July 2018
Accepted: 23 November 2018
First Online: 29 November 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: Hiroaki Kawamoto and Yoshiyuki Sankai are stockholders in, and the CEO of, Cyberdyne Inc. (Ibaraki, Japan), the manufacturer of the robot suit HAL. This study was proposed by the authors, and Cyberdyne was not directly involved in the study design, in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, in the writing of the report, or in the decision to submit the paper for publication.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.