An eight-year-old boy in Mexico is learning to walk with the help of a robot.
Cerebral palsy is a group of neurological disorders that affect a child's ability to control their muscles. It makes it difficult for an affected child to walk.
It takes a long time to rehabilitate a child with Cerebral palsy. David is speeding up his rehabilitation with the help of the Atlas 2030.
The European Patent Office says it's the world's first robot that can adapt to children.
It's already made a huge difference, even with just a few physical therapy sessions.
Guadalope Gardoso told Agence France-Presse that her son was taking his first steps. It's a pleasure for him.
It scared him and his hands were very tense, but now I see that he's already holding the marker pen and starting to draw or play with the ball.
The Atlas was awarded the European Inventor Award. The child's legs are strapped to the robotic ones in order to support their torso.
It's possible for children further along in their rehabilitation to walk on their own, but David's was guided by a trolley.
It's a big deal for physical therapists.
"It makes us very excited to have the exoskeleton and that we can even use it now to achieve all of this," said a physical therapist as quoted by Euro News.
The Association for People with Cerebral palsy in Mexico wants to help over 200 children with cerebral palsy with a device.
The APAC director says that the exoskeleton helps reach rehabilitation in "record time" and that it also increases the children'sesteem.
It's worth its weight in titanium.
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