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After viral graduation walk, paraplegic student calls for greater accessibility: ‘It doesn’t have to be so hard’
After a truck accident left him paralyzed, Jaiden Picot crossed his graduation stage in a robotic exoskeleton Jaiden Picot, who was paralyzed in 2024 after a truck hit him, never imagined that video of him recently walking across Virginia Union University (VUU)‘s graduation stage in a futuristic robotic suit would go viral. But since it did, he says he wants the world to know that he intends to spend his professional career trying to help make the place more accessible to people who – like him – use a wheelchair to get around. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, After viral graduation walk, paraplegic student calls for greater accessibility: ‘It doesn’t have to be so hard’, After a truck accident left him paralyzed, Jaiden Picot crossed his graduation stage in a robotic exoskeleton Jaiden Picot, who was paralyzed in 2024 after a truck hit him, never imagined that video of him recently walking across Virginia Union University (VUU)‘s graduation stage in a futuristic robotic suit would go viral. But since it did, he says he wants the world to know that he intends to spend his professional career trying to help make the place more accessible to people who – like him – use a wheelchair to get around. Continue reading…
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- After viral graduation walk, paraplegic student calls for greater accessibility: ‘It doesn’t have to be so hard’The Guardian - 2026-05-15T09:30:36+00:00
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