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WIRED: We Strapped on Exoskeletons and Raced. There’s One Clear Winner

ExR’s Take: This is the first major tech network to pit exoskeleton devices head-to-head in a friendly competition. We are now entering a new age of this technology, where the field is finally mature enough to understand, compare, and contrast exos.

Exoskeleton tourism is officially here. Karl Zelik flagged a new listing on GetYourGuide: a 2.5-hour “Exoskeleton Robotics Powered City Walk” in Budapest that uses an electric Hypershell exoskeleton to make climbing city hills feel noticeably easier. It’s a small-group experience run by E-Magine Rides Budapest and includes a fitting/safety briefing, as well as photos taken by the guide.

A unified framework for soft inflatable fabric actuators

This paper turns the design of soft inflatable fabric actuators into “characterize one unit cell → predict many complex actuators by spring combinations,” offering a practical path to faster, more systematic design for wearables, manipulation, and adaptive structures—without living in FEM or prototyping purgatory.

Using Exoskeletons to Demystify Energy Economy

New episode on The Human Part of Humotech podcast! This episode focuses on the biomechanics and academic investigation of the metabolic cost of walking, dynamic measurement of movement, and much more.

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