The Better India · 11 hours ago

Kerala Engineer Builds Robotic Exoskeleton to Help Paralysis Patients Walk Again

When Robin Kanattu Thomas watched his grandfather - clinically healthy enough to walk after surgery, but without access to proper rehabilitation - never walk again, the loss became a question he spent years trying to answer. That answer is now a robotic exoskeleton, designed and built in Kochi, that is helping patients like Mohan, a 69-year-old retired engineer, rediscover movement they had believed was gone. "It activates something I was not able to do on my own," Mohan says of the device. "Slowly, slowly, I was able to move my legs." What Robin built is more than a machine - it is an argument that geography and income should not determine who gets to stand up again, and that grief, when it finds the right direction, can become something that carries other people forward.