{"id":148679,"date":"2022-10-22T12:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T17:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/8-year-old-boy-with-cerebral-palsy-walks-using-robotic-exoskeleton"},"modified":"2022-10-22T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T17:22:42","slug":"8-year-old-boy-with-cerebral-palsy-walks-using-robotic-exoskeleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/8-year-old-boy-with-cerebral-palsy-walks-using-robotic-exoskeleton","title":{"rendered":"8-Year-Old Boy With Cerebral Palsy Walks Using Robotic Exoskeleton"},"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\/Bx0J201hwqo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A titanium robotic exoskeleton is helping an eight-year-old boy in Mexico learn to walk after being wheelchair-bound for most of his life.<\/p>\n<p>The boy, David, suffers from cerebral palsy, a group of neurological disorders that surfaces during early childhood and hinders a child\u2019s ability to control their muscle movements. In effect, it makes it extremely difficult for an affected child to walk and maintain their balance and posture.<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, rehabilitating a child with cerebral palsy is a long and arduous process. But now, David\u2019s speeding up his rehabilitation with the help of the battery-powered Atlas 2030 exoskeleton, developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epo.org\/news-events\/events\/european-inventor\/finalists\/2022\/garcia.html\" class=\"\">award winning<\/a> Spanish roboticist Elena Garc\u00eda Armada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A titanium robotic exoskeleton is helping an eight-year-old boy in Mexico learn to walk after being wheelchair-bound for most of his life. The boy, David, suffers from cerebral palsy, a group of neurological disorders that surfaces during early childhood and hinders a child\u2019s ability to control their muscle movements. In effect, it makes it extremely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148679","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\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}