{"id":125686,"date":"2021-07-31T00:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T07:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/dad-builds-robotic-exoskeleton-to-help-son-walk-bbc-news"},"modified":"2021-07-31T00:23:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T07:23:17","slug":"dad-builds-robotic-exoskeleton-to-help-son-walk-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/dad-builds-robotic-exoskeleton-to-help-son-walk-bbc-news","title":{"rendered":"Dad builds robotic exoskeleton to help son walk \u2014 BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b4I2iBhK6no?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Every dad should do this. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>French dad and robotics engineer Jean-Louis Constanza has built a robotic suit for his 16-year-old son Oscar that allows him to walk.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar, a wheelchair user, activates the suit by saying \u201cRobot, stand up\u201d and it then walks for him.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Louis co-founded the company that builds the suit, which can allow users to move upright for a few hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>It is used in several hospitals, but it isn\u2019t yet available for everyday use by individuals and has a price tag of around \u20ac150000 (about \u00a3127700).<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/dad-builds-robotic-exoskeleton-to-help-son-walk-bbc-news\">Continue reading \u201cDad builds robotic exoskeleton to help son walk \u2014 BBC News\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every dad should do this. \ud83d\ude03 French dad and robotics engineer Jean-Louis Constanza has built a robotic suit for his 16-year-old son Oscar that allows him to walk. Oscar, a wheelchair user, activates the suit by saying \u201cRobot, stand up\u201d and it then walks for him. Jean-Louis co-founded the company that builds the suit, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}