((PKG)) BIONIC BODIES -- EXOSKELETONS
((Banner: Bionic Bodies))
((Reporter: Crystal Dilworth))
((Camera: Austin Harris))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Wallingford, Connecticut))
((Main characters: 2 males; 2 females))
((Popup Banner: Exoskeletons are wearable robots for
enhanced independent mobility))
((NATS))
((Matt Tilford, Paraplegic))
When I was 18 years old, I was in a motor vehicle accident
and I sustained a T-12 burst fracture to my spinal cord. It left
me paralyzed from the waist down.
((NATS))
((Jillian Harpin, Paraplegic))
My friends and I were getting ready to go out to dinner and I
had stepped out on to the balcony to make a phone call and I
went to go sit on the railing and I just fell right back off of it
and I landed on the ground 3-stories below. The next thing I
remember, I was in the medical clinic. I had to re-learn
everything that I had taken for granted so few weeks before. I
remember a big goal of mine was to put on my pants by
myself.
((NATS))
((Jess McNair, Stroke Survivor))
I suffered multiple strokes. The process of being strapped in
makes you feel more and more secure because there are
many, they kind of pinpointed the areas where people would
feel kind of sensitive. The machine really supports you. This
is like a big hug around my waist.
((NATS))
((Jillian Harpin, Paraplegic))
My physical therapist told me that it was possible for me to
get in this exoskeleton device and get up and start walking
again and that was news to me.
((NATS))
((Jack Peurac, HCEO, Ekso Bionics))
Ekso Bionics was originally a research project at UC
Berkeley. They were studying how to make soldiers be able
to carry more capacity further without injuring the soldiers
and that technology developed all kinds of different human
wearable robotics that could allow people to do things they
otherwise they couldn’t do.
((NATS))
((Jillian Harpin, Paraplegic))
The first time I stood up in Ekso, it was a little terrifying but so
exciting. But once I got the hang of it, it was so great. I
couldn’t get the smile off of my face. It’s crazy to think that in
just a year-and-a-half, I went from my normal life to the lowest
point in my life back to basically where I was before if not
better.
((NATS))
((Banner: Bionic Bodies))
((Reporter: Crystal Dilworth))
((Camera: Austin Harris))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Wallingford, Connecticut))
((Main characters: 2 males; 2 females))
((Popup Banner: Exoskeletons are wearable robots for
enhanced independent mobility))
((NATS))
((Matt Tilford, Paraplegic))
When I was 18 years old, I was in a motor vehicle accident
and I sustained a T-12 burst fracture to my spinal cord. It left
me paralyzed from the waist down.
((NATS))
((Jillian Harpin, Paraplegic))
My friends and I were getting ready to go out to dinner and I
had stepped out on to the balcony to make a phone call and I
went to go sit on the railing and I just fell right back off of it
and I landed on the ground 3-stories below. The next thing I
remember, I was in the medical clinic. I had to re-learn
everything that I had taken for granted so few weeks before. I
remember a big goal of mine was to put on my pants by
myself.
((NATS))
((Jess McNair, Stroke Survivor))
I suffered multiple strokes. The process of being strapped in
makes you feel more and more secure because there are
many, they kind of pinpointed the areas where people would
feel kind of sensitive. The machine really supports you. This
is like a big hug around my waist.
((NATS))
((Jillian Harpin, Paraplegic))
My physical therapist told me that it was possible for me to
get in this exoskeleton device and get up and start walking
again and that was news to me.
((NATS))
((Jack Peurac, HCEO, Ekso Bionics))
Ekso Bionics was originally a research project at UC
Berkeley. They were studying how to make soldiers be able
to carry more capacity further without injuring the soldiers
and that technology developed all kinds of different human
wearable robotics that could allow people to do things they
otherwise they couldn’t do.
((NATS))
((Jillian Harpin, Paraplegic))
The first time I stood up in Ekso, it was a little terrifying but so
exciting. But once I got the hang of it, it was so great. I
couldn’t get the smile off of my face. It’s crazy to think that in
just a year-and-a-half, I went from my normal life to the lowest
point in my life back to basically where I was before if not
better.
((NATS))
