Neuroscience Breakthrough at 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil with New Technology to Launch First Ball


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With help from the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation, a Walk Again kick off will feature a neuroscience breakthrough at the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil in which a paralyzed person will use a new technology to launch the the first ball.

The person will be sporting a 'Walk Again' brain-controlled robotic exoskeleton developed by an international team at the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience in Natal, Brazil (ELS-IINN).

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