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Shawn Hopkins submitted a new blog post:
Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton Helps Paraplegic Man Kick Off World Cup
Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton Helps Paraplegic Man Kick Off World Cup
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When you talk about the sportsball games, my eyes tend to glaze over. I might appear briefly narcoleptic. But when you talk about robotic suits with a mind interface that might help paraplegics walk again, I snap out of my stupor.
Yesterday Juliano Pinto, a 29-year-old with complete lower trunk paralysis, used such a suit to make the symbolic first kick for the World Cup at Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Did most people notice the six-foot kick? Not...