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Roselyne Min

This is the world’s first entire arm exoskeleton, giving stroke patients more ‘independence'

In 2017, Norwegian student Johanne Marie Hemnes suddenly collapsed in her living room. She was paralysed on her left side, and doctors found a brain haemorrhage, bleeding inside her brain.

Eight years on, the 26-year-old has learned to walk again after months of rehabilitation that focused mainly on her leg. Her arm, however, received little attention and never regained full movement.

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