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Explosion in Search Volume

Likely driven by consumer exoskeletons, worldwide Google search volume for exoskeleton (red) and exosuit (blue) is at an all-time high.

Not Too Late To Join Us At WearRAcon Europe 2025

Join the global wearable robotics community this October in Düsseldorf, Germany, for WearRAcon Europe 2025, co-located with the A+A Safety Technology Trade Fair, and featuring the ExoPark for the 3rd time. Meet experts from academia, industry, and government to exchange ideas, explore collaborations, and advance the adoption of exoskeletons and wearable technologies for workers. Learn from real-world experiences, what’s worked and what hasn’t, through firsthand accounts of deployment successes, pain points, and best practices. Topics include: occupational exoskeletons, wearable sensors, evaluation and implementation methods, KPIs and ROI, and testimonials.

FRT Robotics to launch lighter exosuit Neo for older and female workers while expanding into the U.S. market

Cross-cultural analysis of movement patterns and work-related musculoskeletal disorders in Danish and Kuwaiti construction: implications for targeted exoskeleton design

There have been anecdotal reports that a company’s culture is a good predictor of the success of occupational exoskeleton integration. This research study is the first research evidence of this trend that I have seen.

HANK and BELK Exoskeletons Arrive in Rural Portugal: REVITAL & GOGOA Bring Robotic Neurorehabilitation to Local Communities

This is part of the financed EU initiatives aimed at reducing depopulation in rural areas and introducing physical rehabilitation technology typically found only in larger cities. In other news, the company also observed 17 October 2025, the World Day Against Pain and the first-ever World Day of Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis (HSP) and Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS).

Dr. Amit Goffer, Founder of the ReWalk exoskeleton and UPnRIDE self-balancing powered standing wheelchair

I share Adam Gorlitsky’s sentiment that while I have never gotten to meet Dr. Goffer, he and his work have profoundly changed my life.

New disc motor gives exo-legs 33% more power than a street-legal ebike…

This article raises two curious questions: should more powerful hiking exoskeletons be classified in some new way, and how does a consumer measure and compare their output? In a way, this ties to the need to create a marketplace where the buyers and decision makers have the tools needed to understand their choices.

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