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Wearable tails help elderly folks keep their balance

Rob Beschizza
Apr 30, 2026
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The Arque tail, from 2019

About 25 million years after our ancestors traded theirs for an upright stance, a research team at Keio University Graduate School of Media Design gave our long-lost tails a comeback tour. The prototype, dubbed Arque, was a meter-long wearable robot designed to help elderly users with balance problems.

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