| Title:
| Paraplegics take first steps with robotic legs
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| Description:
| The device, called ReWalk, is the brainchild of engineer Amit Goffer, founder of Argo Medical Technologies, based in Israel. ReWalk consists of motorised leg supports, body sensors and a back pack that contains a computer and rechargeable batteries. Users still need crutches to help with balance. Goffer himself became paralysed in an accident in 1997, but because he lacks full use of his arms cannot use his own invention. To move, the user picks a setting with a remote control wrist band – "stand", "sit", "walk", "descend" or "climb" – and then leans forward, activating the body sensors and setting the robotic legs in motion. ReWalk is in clinical trials in Tel Aviv's Sheba Medical Centre, with more scheduled at the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute in Pennsylvania, US.
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| Author:
| New Scientist Staff and Reuters
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| Orig. Date:
| August 26, 2008
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| Source:
| New Scientist Technology
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| Subject:
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| Contributor:
| Bruce Buchanan
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| Comments:
| Video included
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| Type:
| Text
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| Language:
| English
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| Format:
| html,
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| Last Edit:
| Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:50:09 -0700
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