Exoskeleton Report will support distribution, consultation, and customer education for Auxivo’s EduExo Pro educational exoskeleton kit.

Exoskeleton Report is taking the next step in its long-running coverage of educational exoskeletons: ExR will now support the distribution of Auxivo’s EduExo Pro. This follows the completion of Auxivo’s EduExo Seminar and the certification of ExR’s Borislav “Bobby” Marinov as an Auxivo Educational Exoskeleton Partner for EduExo Pro. The certification covers product and technology training, operational support, and customer-facing business topics, including EduExo assembly, troubleshooting, visual inspection, functionality testing, fitting, maintenance, spare parts, customer support, and demonstrations. The certificate states that the training qualifies the participant to provide customer consultation and services and to sell Auxivo educational exoskeletons.

For ExR, this is more than a new product listing. It is a full-circle moment for a project that has been connected to the exoskeleton community for nearly a decade.

What is EduExo Pro?

The EduExo Pro is an advanced educational exoskeleton kit designed to help universities, research groups, and STEM educators bring hands-on wearable robotics into the classroom. Auxivo describes the EduExo Pro as a cost-effective way to integrate exoskeleton technology into higher education and research, with all components needed to build an arm exoskeleton spanning the shoulder and elbow joints. The kit combines hardware with a comprehensive handbook, enabling students to connect theory with practical experience.

The current EduExo Pro platform includes a 2-degree-of-freedom shoulder joint, a powered 1-degree-of-freedom elbow joint, a mechanical spring for shoulder support, an elbow motor, force and angle sensing, an Arduino Nano 33 IoT controller, an IMU, and an electromyography sensor for muscle-activity measurement. Auxivo also notes that the kit can be assembled for either the left or right arm, and that two kits can be combined into a full upper-body educational exoskeleton.

The handbook is a central part of the kit. It is over 180 pages and is organized around topics such as exoskeleton fundamentals, anatomy and mechanics, mechanical design, electronics, software, control systems, VR and video games, and scientific experiments. This makes the EduExo Pro useful not only for a single robotics demonstration, but also for semester-long courses, group projects, laboratories, and research prototyping.

Why educational exoskeletons matter

One of the major barriers in wearable robotics education has always been access. Students may be fascinated by exoskeletons, but real exoskeleton hardware is expensive, specialized, and often limited to a small number of research labs. Auxivo’s own history of the EduExo project traces the idea back to the early Cybathlon and ETH Zürich student exoskeleton projects, where student interest greatly exceeded the number of available hands-on positions.

The idea behind EduExo was to lower that barrier. Rather than asking every classroom or student team to build an exoskeleton from scratch, the kit gives learners a structured platform they can assemble, program, modify, test, and study. This is especially valuable for interdisciplinary education because exoskeletons sit at the intersection of mechanical design, electronics, controls, software, biomechanics, human factors, and rehabilitation or occupational technology.

The EduExo Pro builds on that concept for more advanced users. The “Pro” version was launched in 2022 for wearable robotics educators and researchers, with more powerful hardware and deeper educational content than the original kit. The EduExo Pro was designed to help teachers, professors, researchers, and students learn about and teach exoskeleton technology through practical exercises in hardware design, electronics, control theory, software design, and scientific evaluation.

ExR’s long history with EduExo

ExR’s connection to EduExo goes back to the very early days of the project. Auxivo’s history of its educational exoskeletons notes that Bobby Marinov from Exoskeleton Report discovered the EduExo project in early 2017 and encouraged participation in the WearRAcon 2017 Innovation Challenge. The EduExo was then presented at WearRAcon in Phoenix, where it won both the audience and jury awards.

Even in 2017, the exo community recognized this as a robotics exoskeleton kit for STEM education, inspired by the problem that only a small number of students could gain access to exoskeleton research labs because robotics research is expensive. The EduExo series is a way for students, teachers, makers, hobbyists, and professors to more easily explore wearable robotics.

More recently, ExR revisited the EduExo story in its 2025 podcast episode with Dr. Volker Bartenbach, founder and CEO of Auxivo. The episode focused on EduExo, EduExo Pro, and the broader role of exoskeleton kits in STEM education. Topics included how many students have access to exoskeleton labs, how educational kits can jump-start student teams, and how passive and active elements are used in the EduExo Pro.

What ExR’s new role means

As an Auxivo Educational Exoskeleton Partner, ExR can now help educators and research groups move from curiosity to implementation. For many institutions, the first question is not simply “What is the EduExo Pro?” but “How would we use it in our course, lab, club, or student project?”

That is where ExR can add value. The goal is not only to distribute a kit but also to help customers understand what the EduExo Pro can do, what kinds of learning outcomes it supports, how it fits into different educational settings, and how to plan for assembly, demonstrations, maintenance, and continued use. The certification training specifically included customer consultation, support, spare parts, cleaning and maintenance, fitting, inspections, identification of damaged parts, and product demonstrations.

The EduExo Pro is already listed in the ExR catalog as a robust, powered, and passive elbow-shoulder educational exoskeleton kit covering hardware design, electronics, control theory, software design, and scientific evaluation.

A practical bridge between exoskeleton technology and education

The exoskeleton industry needs more people who understand both the technology and the real-world complexity of building human-centered wearable systems. Educational platforms like the EduExo Pro can help create that pipeline. They give students and instructors a tangible system for exploring the same challenges that professional exoskeleton developers face: fit, comfort, sensing, actuation, control, software, human movement, safety, evaluation, and user experience.

For ExR, supporting the distribution of EduExo Pro is a natural extension of the site’s mission: to make exoskeleton technology easier to understand, compare, and access. ExR has followed the EduExo project from its early public demonstrations to the current EduExo Pro platform. Becoming an Auxivo Educational Exoskeleton Partner enables ExR to support the next wave of educators, researchers, and student teams who want to move beyond reading about exoskeletons and start building them.

Educators, robotics clubs, university labs, and research groups interested in the EduExo Pro can now contact ExR for consultation, ordering, and support.

Disclosure: ExR is now involved in distributing EduExo Pro. This article is an announcement of that commercial relationship, not an independent product review. Product specifications, pricing, and availability may change over time.