{"id":21473,"date":"2016-02-01T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T17:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/a-budget-exoskeleton-allows-paraplegics-to-walk-for-the-price-of-a-car"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:13:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:13:28","slug":"a-budget-exoskeleton-allows-paraplegics-to-walk-for-the-price-of-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/a-budget-exoskeleton-allows-paraplegics-to-walk-for-the-price-of-a-car","title":{"rendered":"A Budget Exoskeleton Allows Paraplegics To Walk\u2013For The Price Of A Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-budget-exoskeleton-allows-paraplegics-to-walk-for-the-price-of-a-car.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix lets paraplegic people sit, stand, and walk. It costs just $40,000. Here\u2019s how the designers pulled it off.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, Steven Sanchez was trying to do a flip off a BMX dirt ramp when he was paralyzed from the belly button down. 11 years later, with no miracle surgery to speak of, he stands like any other tourist in line at the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had this awesome robotic suit on, and nobody cared,\u201d he says. \u201cThey just waited for me to move up like everyone else moved up.\u201d It was a moment of incredible, touristy normalcy, provided by a bit of practice\u2014and the Phoenix exoskeleton.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/3056049\/a-budget-exoskeleton-allows-parapalegics-to-walk-for-the-price-of-a-car?partner=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix lets paraplegic people sit, stand, and walk. It costs just $40,000. Here\u2019s how the designers pulled it off. In 2005, Steven Sanchez was trying to do a flip off a BMX dirt ramp when he was paralyzed from the belly button down. 11 years later, with no miracle surgery to speak of, he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21473","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68644,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21473\/revisions\/68644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}