{"id":2800,"date":"2024-07-29T07:14:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T11:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umanistic.com\/exosquelette-jeux-olympique-paraplegique\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T10:00:33","slug":"exoskeleton-olympics-games-paraplegic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umanistic.com\/en\/exoskeleton-olympics-games-paraplegic\/","title":{"rendered":"An exoskeleton at the Paris2024 Olympics games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>K\u00e9vin Piette is this Frenchman, paraplegic for 11 years following a motorcycle accident, and who became famous for having carried the Olympic flame for the Paris Olympic Games while walking&#8230; with an exokeleton.<br><br>He works for the start-up that developed this exoskeleton, Wandercraft.<br><br>Several commentators have referred to him as a test pilot of this new technology. It must be said that we are far from the light and discreet passive exoskeletons, which are already on the market. It doesn&#8217;t really correct the image of exoskeletons too often associated with Robocop and IronMan, but democratizing exoskeletons for the general public is always a good thing.<br><br>Bravo for the visibility. These images have gone around the world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kevin Piette, paraplegic since an accident, made history today by carrying the Olympic flame with his exoskeleton! ????<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oejQHQRAwG\">pic.twitter.com\/oejQHQRAwG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kevin W. (@Brink_Thinker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Brink_Thinker\/status\/1815881655506096607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K\u00e9vin Piette is this Frenchman, paraplegic for 11 years following a motorcycle accident, and who became famous for having carried the Olympic flame for the Paris Olympic Games while walking&#8230; with an exokeleton. He works for the start-up that developed this exoskeleton, Wandercraft. Several commentators have referred to him as a test pilot of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exoskeletons"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An exoskeleton at the Paris2024 Olympics games - Umanistic - &quot;Canada&#039;s largest choice of exoskeletons&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"K\u00e9vin Piette, paraplegic for 11 years is walking at the Olympic flame relay for the Paris Olympic Games... with an exokeleton.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/umanistic.com\/en\/exoskeleton-olympics-games-paraplegic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An exoskeleton at the Paris2024 Olympics games - 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