It may be the stuff of science fiction but this is real, on the 21st of June 2014 at Arena Corinthians in São Paulo, during the opening ceremony of the World Cup 2014, a paraplegic Brazilian teenager will stand up out of his wheelchair, walk to the central circle and kick a football. What will allow the boy to do this is a mind-controlled robotic exoskeleton developed over years of collaboration by an international team of scientists on the Walk Again project.
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