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The exoskeleton, patented by the CSIC and developed by the company Marsi-Bionics, has obtained the "CE marking" and authorizations from the European Medicines Agency, so its use can begin to become widespread in hospitals and rehabilitation clinics.
The first pediatric exoskeleton in the world, developed by the Spanish scientist Elena García Armada and which will facilitate mobility for children affected by cerebral palsy or spinal muscular atrophy, is now ready for international marketing.
Industrial engineer at the Automation and Robotics Center that the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the CSIC launched to research therapies that would help patients with neurological diseases, García Armada has not stopped in the development and improvement of bionic exoskeletons since he met a quadriplegic girl.
And today Victor, another pediatric patient, has demonstrated - even brandishing a sword - the effectiveness and usefulness of the exoskeleton during an event that was held at the company's headquarters in the Madrid town of Rivas Vaciamadrid to present the new European seal and which was joined by the Minister of Science and innovation, Pedro Duque, and the president of the CSIC, Rosa Menéndez.
It has been almost ten years of development of a technology in which Spain has been a pioneer and institutional and scientific representatives have valued that the cycle of knowledge transfer has been completed: from the beginning of the first research at the CSIC to the commercialization of a technology that will be available to families with children with spinal muscular atrophy or cerebral palsy. .
Duque has assessed that today is the best example of the potential of science to improve life and has asserted that it is a "paradigmatic case of the virtuous circle" that the Government wants to promote, where a public research center, a private company and State aid are involved.
García Armada has cited these children as example of improvement, fight, intelligence and imagination and he has assured that it is "indescribable" to see them walk for the first time.
"Now the challenge is democratize this invention so that it is within the reach of all children who need it," he added.
