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"Sewn to measure" exoskeleton returned the paralyzed ability to walk

Copper newsParalyzed from the waist down, the woman was able to abandon the wheelchair, take an upright position and take an independent walk thanks to a robotic exoskeleton, created for the first time by individual measurements on a 3-D printer.

The so-called Ekso-suit – developed by US–based companies 3DSystems and EksoBionics - was presented at the Singularity University Summit in Budapest. The first test suit, according to a press release 3D Systems Prints First Hybrid Robotic Exoskeleton Enabling Amanda Boxtel To Walk Tall, was an American Amanda Boxtel, who was paralyzed from the waist down on February 27, 1992 as a result of an accident while skiing in Aspen, Colorado. Doctors concluded that she would never be able to walk on her own, and since then the woman has been moving exclusively in a wheelchair.

3DSystems specialists carried out an "individual tailoring" of a suit for Amanda, digitizing all the parameters of her figure using 3D scanning and creating a three-dimensional image, on the basis of which an exoskeleton was then formed, equipped with amplifiers and controllers developed by EksoBionics. Thanks to Ekso-suit, Amanda was able to walk around Budapest on her own.

Photos from the website 3dsystems.com

It is worth noting that in 2012, the Kessler Foundation charity organization published preliminary results of a clinical trial of a previous model of a robotic exoskeleton developed by Ekso Bionics for patients with spinal cord injury.

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