Engineering, the assist frame, planned
An assist frame, planned after the kit clears its milestones.
An exoskeleton for the legs and hips is planned after milestones G0 to G4. It is not built, it is not required, and it is not part of the second generation build; no actuator is on the parts list. This page repeats the record and adds nothing to it.
THE ASSIST frame, planned after the milestones
What the record says, and nothing more.
Three sentences in the engineering record govern the assist frame. This page repeats them and adds nothing: no parts, no numbers, no schedule. The bands are the whole of the second generation build.
- DOCS/00
The assist frame, an exoskeleton for the legs and hips, is planned after milestones G0 to G4. It is never described as built, as part of the kit, or as a requirement.
Read docs/00 - DOCS/15
G4, the readiness review: only after G0 to G3 pass are running mode and, separately, any assist frame work considered.
Read docs/15 - DOCS/13
ISO 13482, the standard for personal care robots including physical assistant exoskeletons, is relevant only to the future assist frame, not to the bands. IEC 60601 does not apply: TEK is not a medical device and makes no medical claim.
Read docs/13
The founder's fuller vision for a powered frame, with its rule of warn, gently steer, never lock, its reference parts, and the standards it would meet, is kept as written in the archived dossier and safety file, each under a revision note that says the record supersedes them where they differ.