The Hungarian “Walkable Future” is a great success

The life of kids who have to live with lower limb weaknesses seems to get somewhat easier thanks to Walkable Future Ltd., a Hungarian company, which developed a brace operating by engines to help the walking process of those in need, reports portfolio.hu.

Many children in Hungary and around the world live their life affected by the cerebralis paresis (CP) disease, which usually develops at infancy. The brain damage causes disability: the upper and lower limbs get weak, the muscles too tense, and the limbs might become deformed. Unfortunately, the disease cannot be cured yet, however, the life-damaging effects of the symptoms can get eased.

And that is where Walkable Future could become significant. It all started with the 16-year old András, who lives with CP, when his father wanted to help him, so he designed a customized walking machine, a brace, which is bends at the knees, and is operated by an engine. The machine had been constantly developed, and in 2015 the Walkable Future Ltd. was created in order to apply for an EU tender.

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In less than a month they won the Horizon 2020 program, so the funding of the project became supported by the EU: the Hungarian company received a support of 50 thousand EUR directly from Brussels.

The coordinator of the project told portfolio.hu that the money was spent on research: they checked whether there is a need for the machine in the EU through a survey, and if so, how high the demand could be. The responses were very useful for the company, as it turned out that the demand is high, although, it seems to be difficult to bring the product to the Hungarian market.