Recent achievements in rehabilitative robotics modify essential parameters of the human body, such as motility. Exoskeletons used for persons with neurological impairments like spinal cord injury and stroke enter this category by rehabilitating and assisting damaged motor patterns, achievements thought impossible until not long ago. Unlike other examples leading to similar dysfunctions, such as diseases or tumors, the experience of an accident causing a spinal cord injury or the occurrence of a cerebrovascular accident is sudden and perceived as a radical event. This often leads to deep consequences for one’s own body capacities. Exoskeletons attempt to alter this condition, contributing to forge a temporary abled body, although this currently happens in the restricted space of a clinic or a lab and under very controlled conditions for the predominance of users. Using qualitative empirical material from an ongoing study in sociology, including expert and narrative interviews as well as ethnographic visits in labs and centers that design and test exoskeletons, this article addresses the challenges and gains that people with stroke and spinal cord injury experience during their training with exoskeletons. The discussed cases contribute to reassess categories from the phenomenological paradigm, disability studies, and the role medical technologies play in contemporary body worlds.

康复机器人技术的最新成就改变了人体的基本参数，例如运动能力。用于脊髓损伤和中风等神经损伤患者的外骨骼通过修复和协助受损的运动模式进入这一类别，这些成就在不久前还被认为是不可能的。与导致类似功能障碍（例如疾病或肿瘤）的其他示例不同，导致脊髓损伤或脑血管意外发生的事故的经历是突然的，并被视为激进事件。这通常会对自己的身体能力产生深远的影响。外骨骼试图改变这种状况，有助于锻造一个临时的有能力的身体，尽管目前这种情况发生在诊所或实验室的有限空间中，并且在非常受控的条件下以用户为主。本文使用来自正在进行的社会学研究的定性经验材料，包括专家和叙述性访谈以及在设计和测试外骨骼的实验室和中心的人种学访问，本文讨论了中风和脊髓损伤患者在训练期间所经历的挑战和收获与外骨骼。所讨论的案例有助于从现象学范式、残疾研究以及医疗技术在当代身体世界中的作用重新评估类别。包括专家和叙述性访谈以及在设计和测试外骨骼的实验室和中心的人种学访问，本文讨论了中风和脊髓损伤患者在外骨骼训练期间所经历的挑战和收获。所讨论的案例有助于从现象学范式、残疾研究以及医疗技术在当代身体世界中的作用重新评估类别。包括专家和叙述性访谈以及在设计和测试外骨骼的实验室和中心的人种学访问，本文讨论了中风和脊髓损伤患者在外骨骼训练期间所经历的挑战和收获。所讨论的案例有助于从现象学范式、残疾研究以及医疗技术在当代身体世界中的作用重新评估类别。