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InMotion2022 successfully completed
The team from the SmartTex network initiated and organised the International Smart Textiles Conference.
Smart Textiles experts from all over the world met at the Congress Centrum Weimarhalle and also online to exchange ideas about new technological developments in Smart Textiles.
On the first day of the conference, television was also on site. Here you can watch some reports about the InMotion2022:
Textile muscle - the exoskeleton for the fingers
ITP, IPHT and THOREY collaborate to develop glove to support limited hand muscles
The principle of exoskeletons has caused quite a stir in the media. And rightly so, because it will enable paraplegic people, for example, to walk independently again. On a small scale, this was not yet possible or was a bulky affair. Now there is a textile-based solution to support the gripping function of hands:
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