Let the machine do the work: learning to reduce the energetic cost of walking on a split‐belt treadmill.

Let the machine do the work: learning to reduce the energetic cost of walking on a split-belt treadmill In recent decades, there have been numerous attempts to exploit this phenomenon in the form of wearable devices like powered exoskeletons, which can reduce the energy cost of walking (e.g. Malcolm I et al i . Sánchez I et al i .'s study demonstrates that humans can quickly learn to take advantage of external mechanical work, and that the learning process is driven by an attempt to reduce energy cost. [Extracted from the article]