Paralysed man walks again thanks to Robocop-style exoskeleton
A man who has been paralysed for the past 20 years is able to walk again thanks to a revolutionary electronic exoskeleton.
Radi Kaiof, 41, now walks down the street with a dim mechanical hum as the system moves his legs and propels him forwards. 'I never dreamed I would walk again. After I was wounded, I forgot what it's like,' said Kaiof, who was injured while serving in the Israeli military in 1988.
'Only when standing up can I feel how tall I really am and speak to people eye to eye, not from below.' The device, called ReWalk, is the brainchild of engineer Amit Goffer, founder of Argo Medical Technologies, a small Israeli high-tech company.
