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Helen Thompson<\/strong> TWO years ago, Antonio Melillo was in a car crash that completely severed his spinal cord. He has not been able to move or feel his legs since. And yet here I am, in a lab at the Santa Lucia Foundation<\/a> hospital in Rome, Italy, watching him walk.<\/p>\n Melillo is one of the first people with lower limb paralysis to try out MindWalker<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u00af\u2014 the world\u2019s first exoskeleton that aims to enable paralysed and locked-in people to walk using only their mind.<\/p>\n Five people have been involved in the clinical trial of MindWalker over the past eight weeks. The trial culminates this week with a review by the European Commission, which funded the work; the project has been carried out by a consortium of several major universities and companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n <!– <\/p>\n –><\/p>\n This article was posted: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 10:20 am<\/p>\n Tags: science<\/a>, technology<\/a><\/p>\n
New Scientist<\/a>
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