While most robotic technology and AI bring up dystopian notions, we have specifically designed the Aura Powered Suit to be easily adoptable and promote daily use for the elderly. The suit, including its embedded hardware, will be insignificant in weight and deliver an exponential amount of strength. Over time, the potential is to actually improve muscle strength, balance and coordination for the wearer. In fact, Powered Clothing amplifies an individual’s ability to move freely in the world. It reacts to the body’s natural movements, adding muscle power to naturally complement the user’s strength in getting up, sitting down or staying upright. With motors, sensors, and artificial intelligence embedded into a lightweight and flexible fabric, Superflex’s Aura Powered Clothing provides support for the user’s torso, hips and legs. Designing to solve for the lack of mobility due to muscle weakness, balance issues, and coordination problems that all too often makes the elder population a captive of their own homes is an important challenge. The New Old exhibition is the perfect setting for presenting this new concept. Our goal in designing for the New Old exhibition at the Design Museum is to show what technology can do for an aging population right now. The design emphasizes wearability, beauty and details, while integrating the complexities and ingenuity of the system. The result is a wearable powered suit with function and details that showcase the technology within. We partnered with the Superflex team on the design and application of their groundbreaking technology. Powered Clothing is the brainchild of Superflex – a start-up that was birthed in the Robotics Lab at SRI in Palo Alto.
But what about if technology and design could help us continue to move about the world and engage with it physically, socially and emotionally? This is the question Superflex is answering with ‘Aura Powered Clothing’ being presented for the first time at the breakthrough ‘New Old’ exhibition at the London Design Museum. While these efforts to address ADLs – activities of daily living – are important, they fail to take on the greatest challenge: mobility outside the home. When we talk about designing for an aging population, the standard approach has been to provide aid in the home– completing tasks, welfare modules, accommodating lack of mobility, which results in a life lived more statically.
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Here’s Béhar’s full statement on designing the Superflex suit: He was named a Top 25 Visionary by Time Magazine, and was recently named “Most Influential Industrial Designer in the World” by Forbes. He has garnered over 300 awards, including the Design Miami/ 2015 Design Visionary Award, the London Design Museum’s Design of the Year, Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Award, IDSA Design of the Decade Award, IDA Design of the Year, and Conde Nast Traveller Designer of the Year. Many of Béhar’s works are included in the permanent collections of museums worldwide, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Art Institute of Chicago.īéhar is a frequent speaker on design, sustainability, technology, and entrepreneurship. I’m thrilled to join the team creating that vision.” “But what if technology could help us continue to move about the world and engage with it, physically, socially and emotionally? This is the question Superflex is answering with the concept of Powered Clothing: to empower us by enhancing our physical ability so we can continue to live actively. “When we talk about designing for an aging population, the standard approach has been to provide aid in the home - completing tasks, welfare modules, accommodating lack of mobility, which results in a life lived more statically,” said Béhar, in a statement.
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