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A robotic suit is helping this quadriplegic man walk again... and become a Reddit star

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July 7, 2017

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Confined to a life in a wheelchair after a BMX accident, things changed for Ricky in the Fall of 2016. His mother read about a clinical trial using a robotic exoskeleton suit called Indego for spinal cord injury patients. The trial would give quadriplegics and tetraplegics the "ability" to walk again. It was the first time Ricky would walk 8 years after his accident. Full story

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