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Mark Pollock is an Irish (from Hollywood, Co Down) adventurer and motivational speaker. In 1998, he lost his sight and in 2009, he became the first blind man to trek to the South Pole. Last summer, he fell from a bedroom window during the night and was left paralysed from the waist down.
This week he visited Berkeley, California-based Ekso Bionics and began walking again.
I was up and walking. I had no idea of the time but the PTs were giving me my ratio of standing time to walking time and number of steps. As we passed the first hour it looked like I could start to be part of this exciting innovation in robotic technology. But the walking frame wasn’t the end game, crutches are next and so my walking experiment continues
Walking In Robotic Legs (Mark Pollock)