A little over a decade ago, Elena García Armada was working with walking robots at the Center for Automation and Robotics (CAR) of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) when the parents of Daniela, a six-year-old girl who was quadriplegic after suffer a traffic accident when she was only one year old, they came in search of a solution that would allow the girl to walk. Her case gave rise to the company Marsi Bionics, which is led by the researcher herself and with which she has developed the world's first adaptive pediatric exoskeleton, ATLAS. This invention has earned this 50-year-old from Valladolid the popular award of the European Inventor Award 2022 that grants the European Patent Office, an organization of the European Union. He The last Spaniard to receive it was Margarita Salas, in 2019, for the achievements of his entire career.
