23-05-2025
Health care innovation in NYC helps people walk again and create healthier futures
NEW YORK (PIX11) — Robotics are helping people walk for the first time, and researchers are fighting Alzheimer's and cancer inside the building at the corner of East 26th Street and Park Avenue South in Manhattan.
Twenty-one health care innovators call the building home. The wall says Cure because that's the name of the company that connects global leaders in life sciences, digital health, and technology to investors and governments.
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The collaboration is designed to build a healthier and more vibrant future.
Wandercraft is one of the firms. Its technology has created exoskeletons for people with mobility issues.
On Thursday, 33-year-old Zachary Triano was on site to take a giant step in his life. Living with cerebral palsy, he has been in a wheelchair for most of his life.
'I've experienced walking as never before. The robot helps me get the foot down flat and for balance. I've been using muscles I never used before. It's amazing. It's a big deal,' he said.
The exoskeleton provides support and assists in movement inside the rehabilitation center. Wandercraft is working on a home version.
Triano supplies the inspiration.
He saw the technology at a conference three weeks ago. He immediately signed up and has already logged 1,800 steps with the goal of a mile.
'I'm hoping if I take enough steps with this machine that it will teach my brain and I can relearn how to walk,' he said.
Seema Kumar is the CEO of CURE. She calls the campus an ecosystem.
'Bringing it all together and putting it under one roof, you create a collision of great ideas that move things forward and accelerate it,' she said.
Matthew Masselin is the CEO of Wandercraft. It's a personal mission for him as a friend faces life with mobility issues.
'Things do not happen without relationships and if you do not know each other. Cure is about creating an environment where those relationships can happen,' he said.
The official says the campus creates a place where science and dreams can become real with the right financing and support systems.
Success can be measured in steps and smiles.
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