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Ascend is a wearable robot designed to end knee pain

I tried the Ascend knee brace from Roam Robotics, a robotic knee orthosis that promises to reduce knee pain and help people with osteoarthritis regain mobility. Read more on CNET: Subscribe to CNET: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Follow us on Instagram: Follow us on TikTok:

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I tried the Ascend knee brace from Roam Robotics, a robotic knee orthosis that promises to reduce knee pain and help people with osteoarthritis regain mobility.

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34 Comments

Dedu Tedy

July 6, 2021 at 8:48 pm

Hopefully you dont have a bad back as well, by the size of that “smart pack”.

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Emppa 313

July 6, 2021 at 10:16 pm

Well im all ready paying 1,7k for my knee supporter thanks

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don qlts

July 6, 2021 at 10:20 pm

Exactly what Giannis needs right now ????

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Frank Zeleny

July 6, 2021 at 10:20 pm

I’m a bit older and experience knee pain after sitting for any extended period of time. This would be great to help get up and get started before the pain works out!

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Isaac Shumard

July 7, 2021 at 2:41 am

A backpack. Eye roll.

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Pizack3

July 7, 2021 at 2:55 am

You should try it with one on each knee!

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Mr G

July 7, 2021 at 3:50 am

Came here to see Lexy

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Naveen Arur

July 7, 2021 at 7:30 am

That’s EXPENSIVE yo! And the size of that backpack. you will get back pain if you don’t have it already. Lets see the final production unit when it comes out. Many more iterations before it becomes common place. Good start.

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Soundarapandian MS

July 7, 2021 at 9:56 am

Vibrator?

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John Gyver

July 7, 2021 at 10:51 am

The fact that I’d have to press a button on a remote to sit down is a little weird. But I understand this device is still under development, so it’ll probably get better and some day it’ll become a really great product.

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Mistah Miggy

July 7, 2021 at 7:14 pm

I think it would be better to go to the root source of what’s causing the pain. Using something like this that takes the load off is just going to make the supporting muscles weaker and make your knees even weaker. More likely to have pain.
But for those with serious injuries, I can see this being useful, especially for rehab

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jimmyjohnn19

July 7, 2021 at 9:09 pm

Will cost 80,000 dollars

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MS - 80

July 7, 2021 at 9:22 pm

Oh ok!…. until it starts running for you. And you get dragged down the street lol

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M-d vlogs &docbaseball28

July 8, 2021 at 12:19 am

How much?

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Ro0ster

July 8, 2021 at 5:57 am

Not worth the high price tag if it doesn’t help me kick through walls.

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Michael Boys

July 8, 2021 at 9:50 am

Wow!! Technology never ceases to amaze me.

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Jose Zuniga

July 8, 2021 at 11:56 am

This tech has a long way to with bulkyness.

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Fenrir Greyback

July 8, 2021 at 12:50 pm

I wanna try to do a pistol squat with this

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Maxx Koggen

July 8, 2021 at 2:51 pm

Something to improve on: sunlight readability

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tallperson117

July 8, 2021 at 3:15 pm

Tbh this stuff is the future. Imagine this in 10 years, especially when combined with something like neuralink for paraplegics.

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T1Oracle

July 8, 2021 at 7:38 pm

You have to change the mode have just to sit?

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Dondy Donatien

July 8, 2021 at 9:29 pm

Why the bag is need ?

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mohammad zohorul

July 8, 2021 at 10:28 pm

The battery pack can be optimised for old people. But most of them won’t want to carry a bag.

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Not ReallyMe

July 9, 2021 at 12:54 am

2:08 so this is for your knee right?

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Scuffed

July 9, 2021 at 3:00 am

yeah… make the battery way smaller and id try it. I have a spinal problem and have knee pain. “smart pack” is just a big battery :/

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ElNrtNBoy ———

July 9, 2021 at 5:00 am

I think people rather have surgery than wearing all that gear just to go out.

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dragonniz

July 9, 2021 at 1:17 pm

Hey, isn’t this the one Bruce Wayne had on in TDKR?

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MineHunter

July 9, 2021 at 2:10 pm

Yeah I’d rather get the surgery haha, it needs to be at least 3-4 times smaller

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Devon

July 9, 2021 at 2:54 pm

That screen where no one can read in the sun and struggle to operate with hand half covering it

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Paul Harris

July 9, 2021 at 10:09 pm

It’s all good until the power runs out and u have to carry all that with a bad knee lol

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Richie P

July 10, 2021 at 2:21 am

LOL. “His grace is enough.” More like, “This brace is enough.”

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boltonky

July 10, 2021 at 10:50 am

Very interesting and guess good for some not others as i would be concerned with how it would over compensate then causing more stress on the other knee or back etc, soon as your back goes good luck.
We should all become robots on no wait we can already clone ourselves for its more a morality question

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Sudip Chatterjee

July 10, 2021 at 11:10 am

$7000 isn’t that bad. Let’s hope that the project succeeds.

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J Styles - J 風格

July 10, 2021 at 9:50 pm

How about this as an alternative, lose some weight people!!! Eat healthy and exercise ????️‍♀️

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