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This lab is about fostering entrepreneurs who want to build bionics enterprises; the founders of suitX, Ekso Bionics and Roam Robotics all did their initial exoskeleton research in this lab as graduate students.  

We value passion, innovation and engineering knowledge; if you are interested in joining this lab as a graduate student, intern, post doc, or visiting scholar apply here.

suitX

Founded in 2011, U.S. Bionics Inc. (dba; suitX) is a spin-off from the University of California Berkeley’s Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory. It is the technology leader in the design and manufacturing of wearable robotics and actively pursues opportunities in three market segments: industrial, healthcare, and recreational. suitX is striving to become the largest bionics company in the world to bring affordable bionics products to global markets. Neither the vision nor the technology is currently present in any other company” says Dr. Kazerooni, the founder and Chief Scientist.

Ekso Bionics

Founded in 2004, Ekso Bionics is a spin-off from the University of California Berkeley’s Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory. The company was founded under the name of Berkeley ExoWorks by Homayoon Kazerooni. The company’s first commercially available product was called EksoGT (formerly eLEGS).  In 2007 the company changed its name from Berkeley ExoWorks to Berkeley Bionics and 2011 to its current name Ekso Bionics. It also changed the name of eLegs to Ekso. Ekso Bionics introduced ExoHiker, ExoClimber, and Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC.)  In 2014, Ekso Bionics became a public company.

Exoskeletons

Powered Prosthetic Knee

This prosthetic knee is powered, regenerates electric power when possible, and will incorporate an advanced control algorithm to allow for dynamic maneuvers.

Intelligent Assist Devices

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