No. My wife is paraplegic and we did in fact test a rudimentary exoskeleton at one point. The reason they don't work is because the mobility she misses the mos

No. My wife is paraplegic and we did in fact test a rudimentary exoskeleton at one point. The reason they don't work is because the mobility she misses the most is the ability to transport a cup of coffee from the coffee maker to her desk, or the ability to go for a jog. It's the little things that have the biggest impact, and no one is going to don an exoskeleton to wear around the house. Furthermore, the drive to overengineer mobility solutions crashes headlong into the world of manual wheelchairs. Manual wheelchairs are like road bikes: the best ones are the smallest, lightest-weight ones (often made from the same parts and materials). They have as few parts as possible, can turn on a dime, and can be lifted one-handed into the passenger seat of a car. A walking device of some sort might be a better equivalent to an electric wheelchair for someone with quadriplegia, hemiplegia, muscle spasms, or generalized weakness, but here you have the problem that many electric wheelchair users are at high risk of pressure sores. There's a reason that electric wheelchairs have all sorts of fancy recliner features: sit in any chair for 16 hours a day without the ability to shift around and you're going to do some pretty serious damage to whatever your weight is resting on. An exoskeleton necessarily holds you in a more upright position, putting more weight on fewer body parts. The solution to the access problem is to build ramps and lifts.