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WalkON Suit, The Bronze Medal Finalist of the Cybathlon Powered Exoskeleton Race

January 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine curated by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society have published an extensive 12-page article on the WalkON Suit. The WalkON Suit is a powered exoskeleton that successfully enables a completely paralyzed from the waist down user (pilot) to walk, sit, move with targeted foot placement, climb and descend [more]

Inspirational: Meet the first pilot to win a gold in the Cybathlon Exoskeleton Race

November 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

ReWalk has built a stair-climbing exoskeleton, enabling a paralyzed man to walk again - Engadget via YouTube

Meet Andre van Rüschen, the ReWalk exoskeleton pilot who won first place at the inaugural Cybathlon Exoskeleton Race. The video, published by Engadget gives us a rare glimpse into the life of this competitor and a close up look at his ReWalk unit. Highlights: While this video is obviously quite inspirational, it also highlights a point the [more]

ReWalk Robotics Wins Gold at the Cybathlon Exoskeleton Race

November 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Congratulations to ReWalk Robotics for taking the gold medal at the first ever Cybathlon Exoskeleton Race. Half a dozen teams competed in the final round of the Cybathlon which was held on October 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. The exoskeletons and their operators had to navigate a six stage obstacle course designed to mimic the challenges of [more]

IHMC Powered Exoskeleton Cybathlon Full Course Practice Run

October 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Florida Institute For Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) released a video of running a powered exoskeleton through an obstacle course. This video is significant because rehabilitation and assistive exoskeletons are usually shown moving back and forth in a clean corridor. This video is exactly the opposite. The IHMC (Mina V2) exo runs [more]

Meet the teams going to the Cybathlon Exoskeleton Race

August 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Cybathlon Exoskeleton Teams Featured Image

The Cybathlon team have released the list of participants for the Exoskeleton Race, and there are some surprises. The first Cybathlon or Cybernetic Athlon is coming up on October 8th, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. The Cybathlon will be the first competition to feature physically challenged contestants wearing powered prosthetics and [more]

Cybathlon – Powered Exoskeleton Race, October 2016

September 9, 2015 // 3 Comments

The Cybathlon, or Cyber-Athlon, is a dedicated competition for people with disabilities and their mobility enabling devices. The Cybathlon will be held on the 8th of October 2016 in the Swiss Arena in Zurich, Switzerland. The event is organized by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). Hocoma, the maker of the [more]

Project MARCH is Redefining the Image of Student Led Exoskeleton Builds

October 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

Project MARCH is the student team of the Delft University of Technology that is developing an innovative and versatile exoskeleton, which is a motorized robotic armor, that can be used to let people with a spinal cord injury stand up and walk again. At this moment, the biomedical technology regarding exoskeletons is underdeveloped, so that people [more]

The Swiss Exoskeleton Landscape – A Human Augmentation Hub Hidden in the Mountains

October 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

Cheese, chocolate and mountains? All true stereotypes. But if you take a closer look at the alphorn blowing, direct democratic ski resort called Switzerland, you will find a very vibrant exoskeleton scene with many interesting players. In the very dynamic landscape of worldwide exoskeleton research, development and businesses, it is often hard to [more]

The WearRAcon Innovation Challenge 2019 is Now Open for Submissions!

October 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

WearRAcon19 Innovation Challenge Open-01

The Wearable Robotics Association Innovation Challenge 2019 is now accepting submissions until January 20th of next year. The challenge will pit inventors, student teams, labs, and emerging companies in a friendly competition of ingenuity and creativity. Everyone from solo creators to full teams are invited to throw their hat in the ring. [more]

COST Action: Online Questionnaire for Developers of Wearable Robotic Exoskeletons for Walking

August 14, 2018 // 4 Comments

While the exoskeleton industry is bigger than it has ever been, it continues to be quite fragmented. COST Action CA16116, Wearable Robots for Augmentation, Assistance or Substitution of Human Motor Functions, is taking a bold step forward in characterizing and uniting the efforts of wearable robotics developers by creating an [more]

First Ever Applied Collegiate Exoskeleton Competition 2018 Coming May 5, 2018

March 6, 2018 // 1 Comment

Friendly competition is the best way to spur innovation. The first ever Applied Collegiate Exoskeleton Competition (ACE) aims to push forward exoskeleton technology at the collegiate level. Scheduled to be held on May 5, 2018, ACE intends to bring student teams from across the U.S. The teams will design and build in their respective [more]

Why wearable exoskeleton technology?

February 21, 2017 // 6 Comments

What is so special about wearable exoskeleton technology? I think the answer is quite simple. Wearable exoskeleton technology has the potential to change the world for the better. Here you might be thinking, “Yeah, yeah. We have heard that before. You are just trying to create some hype and get some money.” Well, allow me to convince [more]

Overarching Themes of the Exoskeleton Technical Interchange Meeting

February 9, 2017 // 2 Comments

This January 2017 was the Exoskeleton Technical Interchange Meeting. The meeting was co-hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Army NSRDEC. As planned, the event brought together over 150 participants from the industrial, military, and medical communities. In attendance were exoskeleton developers, [more]

2016 Year in Review: Exoskeletons and Wearable Robotics

February 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

How did the wearable robotics, exoskeletons, and exosuits market perform in 2016? Join us, as we go back in time and summarize how each segment in the exoskeleton industry fared last year. Overview of 2016: additional regulatory approvals in the medical market less than desirable adoption of medical exoskeletons an explosion in exoskeletons for [more]

ReWalk Robotics Presenting in the San Fransisco Bay Area at AbilitiesExpo

November 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

San Jose Convention Center via SanJose.org

ReWalk Robotics will be at AbilitiesExpo Bay Area this week, November 18th through the 20th. You will be able to find ReWalk representatives and their Cybathlon gold medal winning exoskeleton in the middle of the convention floor of AbilitiesExpo Bay Area at the San Jose Convention center, booth 616. ReWalk Robotics will be located directly [more]

Wearable Exoskeletons R&D News: Oct-Nov

November 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Wearable Exoskeleton R&D News Oct-Nov 2016

These are some of the major Research and Development related news in the exoskeleton industry for the period of October through the middle of November 2o16: ITRI wins R&D 100 Award for its lower body gait rehabilitation exoskeleton 2WA-EXO Conor Walsh from the Wyss Institute won the Rolex Award for mobility-enhancing soft exosuit Teleoperation [more]

Roki

October 1, 2016 // 6 Comments

Roki by Roki Robotics is a modular, powered lower body rehabilitation hip-knee exoskeleton. It is designed by a startup company in Mexico in association with a multitude of local academic and business groups. In 2016, the Roki exoskeleton could only be rented within Mexico. [more]

Electrical Muscle Stimulation in Rehabilitation, Cybernetic Bicycles and Exoskeletons

August 26, 2016 // 2 Comments

Dr Dixon on Electrical Muscle Stimulation for Rehabilitation

Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) and Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) for rehabilitation are developing fields that have started to intersect with exoskeleton development. In electrical muscle stimulation, a small electric field is applied across muscle groups causing them to contract. The voltage can be applied above or under the [more]

Exoskeleton Events For July 2016

July 7, 2016 // 1 Comment

Hocoma Hubs and Sales Partners for the Lokomat, 2016 via LokomatPro Brochure

Webinars, seminars and everything in between; the exoskeleton industry is picking up speed and so is the frequency of exoskeleton related events. This July 2016 promises to be a much lighter month than the previous one but there are still at least two webinars that should not be missed: Hocoma: How can advanced technology enable safe and early [more]

When is the Exoskeleton Industry Inflection Point and Where Are The Orders?

June 21, 2016 // 3 Comments

Exoskeleton Inflection Point and Where are the Orders

The vast majority of exoskeleton companies are losing money leaving many investors to wonder when are we going to reach the inflection point? The exoskeleton industry inflection point is the time when the major companies in the field start turning a profit. Another side of the same question is the low number of exoskeleton sales. If the [more]

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