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Paralyzed by accident, grad student engineers his future with exoskeleton
Aug. 21, 2015—Andrew Ekelem sits in a wheelchair at the bottom of the fifth-floor stairwell at Olin Hall, laptop balanced on his thighs, quick keystrokes making tiny adjustments for the exoskeleton that promises to change his life. If Ekelem is impatient with this process, it’s impossible to tell. But he readily admits it’s his impatience that brought...