IEEE AgeTech is hosting a 2-hour virtual webinar bringing together global experts in wearable robotics, rehabilitation engineering, biomechanics, and AgeTech innovation to discuss the future of mobility, independence, rehabilitation, and healthy aging. The event focuses on clinical translation, international standardization efforts, AI integration, and real-world implementation challenges for wearable robotic technologies targeting aging populations.

Panel discussion theme: “What Will It Take for Wearable Robotics to Become Mainstream AgeTech?”

Discussion topics include clinical validation and evidence, human-centered design for aging populations, AI-integrated wearable robotics, accessibility and affordability, ISO/IEC medical robotics standardization, real-world implementation and deployment, industry–academia collaboration, and future directions for healthy longevity.

Moderator: Bong-Keun “Andrew” Jung, OTD, University of Southern California (USC).

Panelists:
– Jan Veneman, University of Twente, Netherlands
– Sungwoo Park, PhD, University of Southern California (USC)
– Inhyuk Moon, PhD, Dong-Eui University, South Korea

About the IEEE AgeTech Wearable Robotics Committee:
IEEE AgeTech describes wearable robotics as exoskeletons, powered orthotics, and soft wearable systems designed to augment mobility, strength, endurance, and postural stability across the aging and care ecosystem. These technologies support functional independence, fall risk reduction, rehabilitation, and enabling daily activities for older adults and others, while also reducing physical workload, musculoskeletal injury risk, and task-related strain for caregivers, clinicians, and service providers. The committee page emphasizes user-specific adaptation, real-time monitoring, data-driven decision support, interoperability, safety certification, and ethical deployment for safe, scalable, and sustainable use across home, community, and formal care settings.

IEEE AgeTech leadership lists Bong-Keun (Andrew) Jung, University of Southern California (USC), as chair and Richard Harvey, University of Southern California (USC), as co-chair of the Wearable Robotics Committee.

Links:

Event page: https://agetech.ieee.org/events/wearable-robotics-for-aging-populations/
Registration page: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cUJxH_xjSke8EMdD3DRHlA
Committee page: https://agetech.ieee.org/about/committees/wearable-robotics/
IEEE AgeTech leadership page: https://agetech.ieee.org/about/leadership/