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  • It's a small step for Tebow, but could this be a giant leap in paralysis?

  • Thibault's arms and legs were paralyzed after a full damaged his spinal cord four years ago.

  • But when he strapped into this robotic suit, he can use his thoughts to move a game.

  • He told me Learning to walk came quite quickly.

  • But using the exoskeleton to precisely bend and stretch his arms or rotate his wrists took much longer.

  • So how does the exo skeleton work?

  • While first Tebow has implants resting on the surface of his brain, they are reading his thoughts, his brain activity, his brainwaves and they're being beamed to a computer.

  • Now the computer has to rapidly digest that information and transform that brain activity into instructions, which is sent to the exo skeleton.

  • From thought to movement.

  • It takes less than 1/3 of a second.

  • TiVo first used his brain implants to control a computer game before trying the exo skeleton.

  • Now the French researchers planted test the technology on three more patients.

  • This experimental exo skeleton is not going to become widely available soon.

  • If you look, Tebow is attached to the ceiling to stop him falling over.

  • It means the exo skeleton can't be used outside the laboratory, and this kit is also too expensive for most of the world's benefit.

  • But this is still a breakthrough and shows the potential of technology to transform lives.

  • But when he strapped into this robotic suit, he can use his thoughts to move a game.

  • But using the exoskeleton to precisely bend and stretch his arms or rotate, his wrists took much longer.

  • Tebow has implants resting on the surface of his brain.

  • They are reading his thoughts.

  • They are reading his thoughts, his brain activity, his brain waves and they're being beamed to a computer.

  • And this kit is also too expensive for most of the world to benefit.

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It's a small step for Tebow, but could this be a giant leap in paralysis?

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