Amanda Boxtel, a wheelchair user, is about to stand up. A skiing accident 18 years ago partially severed her spinal cord leaving her paralysed from the waist down. She eases out of the chair with crutches, teeters backward for a second, then takes a step. Soon she is walking around the warehouse in Berkeley, California, under her own direction.rnBoxtel is wearing a new exoskeleton called eLEGS, which could soon help people with spinal injuries to walk with a natural gait. "Walking with eLECs took some relearning," says Boxtel, "but my body has the muscle memory and I learned to walk really fast."
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