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Paraplegic kicks off the 2014 FIFA World Cup
VIDEO 1 min. 24 sec.: In June, 2014, a 29 year old paraplegic man, Juliano Pinto, successfully made the first kick at the FIFA [Soccer] World Cup in Sao Paulo, Brazil. His kick was made possible by an exoskeleton, a type of robotic suit, designed to take commands from its wearer’s brain. The news video was cut a bit short, but here it is.
More details on the FIFA World Cup kickoff exoskeleton
VIDEO 5 min. 4 sec.: The exoskeleton worn by Juliano Pinto was provided by the Walk Again project, an international collaborative effort involving 150 researchers led by Brazilian neuroscientist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, based at Duke University. See Dr. Nicolelis and the exoskeleton in the video below, which provides a bit more detail about the project.
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In the above video, an overview of the components of the research setup were provided. To see those components in a list, visit the next page.
