Gadgets|May 17, 2011 3:05 am

Paralyzed student uses robotic exoskeleton to walk at college graduation (video)

Austin Whitney hasn’t been means to travel given a 2007 automobile pile-up left him paralyzed, yet upon Saturday a 22-year-old triumphantly strode opposite a theatre to accept his grade from UC Berkeley. He had a small help, in a form of a specifically crafted robotic exoskeleton grown by Berkeley engineering highbrow Homayoon Kazerooni. Kazerooni as well as his group written a exoskeleton with levity as well as affordability in mind, facing a titillate to bucket it up with costly hardware as well as tethering a mechanized hiker to a trek which houses a mechanism as well as a rechargeable, eight-hour battery. As a result, a Austin hiker won’t capacitate a kind of acrobatic leaps which would have Lt. Rasczak proud, yet a marked down mobility comes during a marked down price of only $15,000. That’s positively not an incentive buy, yet it’s a welcomed pick to alternative exoskeletons which sell for $100,000 or more. Walk past a mangle for a video of Whitney’s useful steps, along with a shave of Kazerooni describing his creation.

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