A variety of pathologies impair human gait by reducing the ability to control the lower limbs, which causes the need for gait-assistive devices. The increase in interest and the advances in wearable-robot technologies ...

The concept of sustainable design as a specialism within design, business and manufacture is not a new one. Writers and educators such as Victor Papanek (Papanek 1971) and Buckminster Fuller (Fuller and Snyder 1969) were ...