Robotic legs to help paraplegics walk again

TWO inventors in New Zealand have produced what they claim are the world’s first robotic legs to help paraplegics walk again.

Robotic legs to help paraplegics walk again

The bionic legs were road-tested publicly for the first time this week by 23-year-old Hayden Allen who was told five years ago he would never walk again after being paralysed from the chest down in a motorcycle accident.

Allen said the experience of being able to stand up and walk when strapped into his robotic legs was fantastic and he felt like a normal human being again.

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