After a roof collapsed on him at a party two years ago, Errol Samuels thought he would never walk again. He was left with irreversible damage to his spinal cord, but with the help of a new robotic exoskeleton suit, Samuels is not only walking he is climbing stairs.
Samuels is one of a lucky few paraplegic patients at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York using the ReWalk. The ReWalk was invented by Argo an Israeli company and acts like a robotic set of legs. The ‘legs’ are held together by an external frame that is adjusted to match each patients’ limb length and weight. A wrist watch-like device acts as a remote control that communicates with a battery operated computer, sending signals to walk, sit or climb. Patients wear a backpack that weighs about 15 pounds and contains the computer.
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