{"id":39008,"date":"2021-07-27T13:22:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T13:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39008"},"modified":"2021-07-27T13:22:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T13:22:25","slug":"dad-builds-robotic-exo-skeleton-to-help-son-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39008","title":{"rendered":"Dad builds robotic &#8216;exo-skeleton&#8217; to help son walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">French dad and robotics engineer Jean-Louis Constanza has built a robotic suit for his 16-year-old son Oscar that allows him to walk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Oscar, a wheelchair user, activates the suit by saying &#8216;robot, stand up,&#8217; and it then walks for him. Jean-Louis co-founded the company that builds the suit, that can allow users to move upright for a few hours a day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It is used in hospitals in several counties, but it isn&#8217;t yet available for everyday use by individuals and has a price tag of around \u20ac150,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"> A personal exoskeleton would need to be much lighter, the company&#8217;s engineers said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-57985857\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French dad and robotics engineer Jean-Louis Constanza has built a robotic suit for his 16-year-old son Oscar that allows him to walk. Oscar, a wheelchair user, activates the suit by saying &#8216;robot, stand up,&#8217; and it then walks for him. Jean-Louis co-founded the company that builds the suit, that can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/119604485_p09qk5lx.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}