At a Canadian wellness center, a unique robotic exoskeleton is allowing children with developmental disorders to walk—often for the first time.

The nonprofit’s Regina location is eager to get families to come by and try it out. It can be used to correct a child’s gait or help them take their first steps, and is suitable for a variety of conditions including spinal cord injuries and cerebral palsy.

First Steps Wellness Center received the Trexo exoskeleton out of the goodness of someone’s heart. The $100,000 machine was donated to help children like Leo, a boy born with a rare genetic disease which left him a prognosis that walking would be forever out of reach.

But latched into the Trexo walker at First Steps, his mother Anna Begelfer has watched her son learn to walk and develop a mus

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