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Colorado high school robotic students create device to help animal walk freely
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Our problem was that the spinal cord was twisted much like -- telephone -- twisted so that while half the body was going forward.
The other half of the body was going sideways.
Doctor Harry -- at the -- from -- vet clinic named flipper was steps away from being put to sleep a feline unable to function on all fours.
Even standing was impossible for flew up from thing.
For a fracture.
The -- -- -- proper use of the rear end overtime the task is restoring communication over the entire spinal cord so everything functions for flipper.
In the short term.
And through the comfort his -- robot club.
I love -- I loved building things so to come together and after it since 380 -- we can look at it from the.
-- -- in several prototypes were drawn to life when it's this one tipped over.
Too much so.
And we revised its -- that's coming up with a -- Help support flips twisted lives as a lesson for all of us.
And how to be -- that in the challenges that we all face in life and she just doesn't with a smile on her face.
They're weaker home African continent and -- just.
In hushed tones the top secret cat trapped in his -- on flipper.
On -- mark can -- gifts that it.
How -- militants -- -- in the -- this way and that could have been ripping that ranking lags behind -- Absolutely wonderful because it gives her a chance for a normal life.
Our whole intent is that eventually.
She'll be able to walk on her own.
For all those who have tried to adopt -- maybe now is not the right time -- -- a few months could be walking to a different beat this time next year.
And Jennifer John -- fox 31 to --
