{"id":7855,"date":"2019-02-24T09:54:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T09:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/exoskeleton-helps-people-with-paralysis-to-walk\/"},"modified":"2019-02-24T09:54:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T09:54:21","slug":"exoskeleton-helps-people-with-paralysis-to-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/exoskeleton-helps-people-with-paralysis-to-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Exoskeleton helps people with paralysis to walk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Floriane Vintras has had partial paralysis since she was young and has been using a wheelchair for the last two years. <\/p>\n<p>She is now using an exoskeleton developed by the Paris-based start-up Wandercraft to help with her rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>Algorithms and sensors read a person&#8217;s movement in the suit, meaning that once they lean in a direction, the suit will move.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, it is hands-free and does not require any upper body support. <\/p>\n<p>Ms Vintras started working for Wandercraft after trying out their device. <\/p>\n<p>She tells BBC Click&#8217;s LJ Rich how this exoskeleton can be useful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See more at <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/n13xtmd5\" class=\"story-body__link\">Click&#8217;s website<\/a><strong> and <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcclick\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">@BBCClick<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-47319932\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floriane Vintras has had partial paralysis since she was young and has been using a wheelchair for the last two years. She is now using an exoskeleton developed by the Paris-based start-up Wandercraft to help with her rehabilitation. Algorithms and sensors read a person&#8217;s movement in the suit, meaning that once they lean in a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}