(1) major competitors in the international market
1. Israeli wearable exoskeleton robot company ReWalkRobotics
Founded in 2001 and launched on NASDAQ in September 2014, ReWalkRobotics focuses on providing medical robotic devices for people with lower limb disabilities, and is committed to designing and manufacturing wearable exoskeleton power devices to help people with paralysis below the waist regain mobility and improve the quality of life of people with lower limb disabilities. With R&D headquarters in the United States, Israel and Germany, the company has two products, ReWalkPersonal and ReStoreExo-Suit, the former is primarily suitable for use in home, work or social environments, enabling patients to stand, walk and climb stairs through sensors and monitors. The latter is used for clinical repair, providing physical therapy for paralyzed patients, including alleviating limb pain caused by paralysis, muscle spasms, helping the intestinal digestive system, and accelerating metabolism.
ReWalk's exoskeleton products were CE and FDA certified to enter the European and U.S. markets in 2012 and 2014, respectively, making it the first FDA-approved exoskeleton robot for personal and rehabilitation use in the U.S. ReWalk is a wearable robot exoskeleton, mainly through the battery to drive the joint part of the motor, the composition of electric leg structure, in the process of walking can sense the patient's center of gravity changes, imitate the gait of natural walking, and control the walking speed according to the actual situation, so as to provide users with strong hip and knee movements, so that spinal cord injury patients can walk upright, turn and climb stairs and other activities.
Photo: ReWalkRobotics exoskeleton robot products
Source: ReWalkRobotics website
2. British smart prosthetic company TouchBionics
TouchBionics was founded in 2003 and launched the world's first mechanical prosthetic hand with movable joints in 2007, which fundamentally changed the lives of people with upper limb disabilities and is a pioneer in the field of intelligent prosthetics, and smart prosthetic hands have also become the company's core products. TouchBionics aims to provide the best rehabilitation for people with upper limb disabilities, and its main products include EMG-controlled prosthetic hands and highly simulated functional prosthetics. During use, the wearer programs a series of different preset actions through the app to select the appropriate preset for the action he will perform, such as holding the cup, after the selection the wearer will control the prosthesis by bending the muscles, which will send electrical signals from the user's nerves to the prosthesis to hold the cup, and even use the fingers to operate smartphones and tablets.
Pictured: TouchBionics smart prosthetic hand
Source: TouchBionics official website
3. JAPANESE EXOSKELETON ROBOT COMPANY CYBERDYNE
FOUNDED IN 2004, CYBERDYNE aims to solve the medical rehabilitation problems faced by the aging society, and its advanced AI-Robot products developed and manufactured can improve the power of users and improve the labor shortage faced by the aging society. The core product, HybridAssistiveLimb (HAL), is the world's first cyborg-style rehabilitation exoskeleton, hal can optimize the fusion of "human", "machine" and "information" through machine learning, assist the physically disabled to exercise, and make the wearer have more power than usual.
PICTURED: CYBERDYNE EXOSKELETON ROBOT PRODUCTS
SOURCE: CYBERDYNE OFFICIAL WEBSITE
4. American exoskeleton robot company EksoBionics
EksoBionics was founded in Berkeley, California, USA in 2005 and listed on the NASDAQ in 2016. The company aims to use exoskeleton technology to enhance user strength and improve quality of life and improve human athletic ability, is the leader of the mechanical exoskeleton company, the company's products can help paralyzed people stand up and walk, but also can help enhance the ability of workers to work. In 2016, the core product EksoGT was approved for marketing by the FDA, mainly for stroke patients and spinal cord injury patients, and in 2020, another product, EksoNR, was approved by the FDA, mainly for patients with acquired brain injury (including brain trauma).
Pictured: EksoBionics exoskeleton robot EksoNR
Source: EksoBionics official website
5. American exoskeleton robot company SuitX
SuitX was founded in 2012 and has made unremitting efforts to reduce product prices, the company has increased the application scenarios of mechanical exoskeletons while reducing the production cost of exoskeletons, reducing the market price of its products by 75%. In 2020, the medical exoskeleton robot Phoenix was approved by the FDA for marketing, suitable for low-level paraplegics, stroke patients, etc., mainly used for auxiliary rehabilitation and walking.
Pictured: SuitX exoskeleton robot Phoenix
Source: SuitX official website
6. MarsiBionics, a Spanish exoskeleton robotics company
Founded in 2013, MarsiBionics currently owns two lower extremity exoskeleton products, namely "MAK (MB-ActiveKnee) PowerEd Knee Orthosis" and "ATLAS (AtlasPediatricExo) Mechanical Exoskeleton". Among them, the MAK dynamic knee orthoses are suitable for rehabilitation patients after knee arthroplasty, which can help patients significantly shorten the recovery time, and are potentially used for gait training for patients with post-stroke rehabilitation, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and muscle atrophy. Designed for children with neurological disorders (such as cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury) and neuromuscular diseases (such as spinal muscular atrophy and myopathy), ATLAS mechanical exoskeletons can assist children in walking while stimulating the motivation of children to exercise, thus achieving the purpose of physical therapy.
Pictured: MarsiBionics exoskeleton robot (left)
Source: MarsiBionics official website
(2) the domestic market
1. daai robot
FOUNDED IN BEIJING IN 2016, DAAI ROBOT BEGAN PRODUCT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN 2010, AND IS A PIonEER IN THE FIELD OF EXOSKELETON ROBOTS IN CHINA. THE CORE PRODUCTS ARE THE LOWER LIMB EXOSKELETON REHABILITATION ROBOTS "AI DONG" AND "AI KANG", WHICH ARE MAINLY USED FOR WALKING REHABILITATION TRAINING FOR PATIENTS WITH LOWER LIMB MOTOR DYSFUNCTION CAUSED BY SPINAL CORD INJURY, BECOMING THE FIRST INNOVATIVE MEDICAL DEVICE PRODUCT IN BEIJING APPROVED AFTER THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE "BEIJING MEDICAL DEVICE RAPID REVIEW AND APPROVAL MEASURES", AND WAS APPROVED AS A CLASS II MEDICAL DEVICE REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE IN BEIJING IN 2018, WHICH IS THE FIRST LOWER LIMB EXOSKELETON ROBOT CERTIFIED BY NMPA (FORMER CFDA) IN CHINA. THE APPROVAL OF THE EXOSKELETON ROBOT PRODUCT OF DAAI ROBOT IS A BREAKTHROUGH ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF INTELLIGENT REHABILITATION IN CHINA, MARKING THAT THE DOMESTIC LOWER LIMB EXOSKELETON ROBOT HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED FROM THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT STAGE TO THE INDUSTRIAL MASS PRODUCTION STAGE, WHICH HAS GREATLY PROMOTED THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS OF THE REHABILITATION INDUSTRY.
figure: daai robot exoskeleton robot products
source: according to the official website of daai robot
2. chengtian technology
Founded in Hangzhou in 2017, Formerly known as Harbin Chengtian Technology Development Co., Ltd. (2012), Chengtian Technology is the first and only R&D enterprise in China to obtain a lower limb exoskeleton robot with the scope of application for central neuropathy (covering paraplegic and hemiplegic patients). Focusing on the field of old-age care and rehabilitation, the company provides intelligent rehabilitation equipment, rehabilitation assistive devices and intelligent rehabilitation solutions for patients with disabilities and incapacitation, the elderly and rehabilitation medical institutions, and has completed the Pre-A round and A round of financing of 10 million yuan in 2018 and early 2021 respectively. The company has mastered the core technology of the whole chain of exoskeleton robots such as motors, deceleration machines, joint modules, sensors, etc., and has applied for more than 150 independent intellectual property rights, and now there are two lower limb exoskeleton robot products approved by THE NMPA in 2020 and March 2021, with an annual production capacity of up to 1,000 units.
PICTURED: CHENG TIAN TECHNOLOGY YOUXING (UGO210) LOWER LIMB EXOSKELETON ROBOT
source: cheng tian technology official website
3. step robot
FOUNDED IN SHENZHEN IN 2016, AROUND ITS CORE TECHNOLOGY - ROBOT INTERACTION TECHNOLOGY baseD ON FLEXIBLE DRIVES, IT HAS DEVELOPED SEVERAL MEDICAL REHABILITATION ROBOT PRODUCTS SUCH AS LOWER LIMB REHABILITATION EXOSKELETON ROBOTS, WALKING ROBOTS, HAND REHABILITATION EXOSKELETON ROBOTS, ETC. FLEXIBLE DRIVERS DO NOT REQUIRE FORCE SENSORS TO ACHIEVE FORCE FEEDBACK, AND CAN PROVIDE MORE COMFORTABLE HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION THAN RIGID TRANSMISSION. UP TO NOW, FOUR ROUNDS OF FINANCING HAVE BEEN COMPLETED IN APRIL 2017, MAY 2018, AUGUST 2020 AND FEBRUARY 2021 RESPECTIVELY, AND THE LATEST ROUND OF FINANCING IS THE TENS OF MILLIONS OF YUAN A+ ROUND OF FINANCING COMPLETED IN FEBRUARY THIS YEAR. THE CORE PRODUCT OF LOWER LIMB REHABILITATION EXOSKELETON ROBOT BEAR-H1 IS THE FIRST ACTIVE REHABILITATION ROBOT FOR REHABILITATION TRAINING FOR STROKE PATIENTS IN CHINA, AND HAS ENTERED THE SPECIAL APPROVAL PROCEDURE ACCORDING TO THE "GUANGDONG PROVINCE CLASS II INNOVATIVE MEDICAL DEVICE SPECIAL APPROVAL PROCEDURE (TRIAL)".
PICTURED: STEP ROBOT BEAR-H1 EXOSKELETON ROBOT
source: external robot official website
4. chino power
FOUNDED IN SHENZHEN IN 2015, CHINO POWER IS A LEADING POWER EXOSKELETON ROBOT COMPANY IN CHINA, FOCUSING ON THE ASSISTANCE AND TREATMENT OF CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES, AGING, AND MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES, AND HAS COMPLETED A ROUND OF FINANCING OF 100 MILLION YUAN IN APRIL 2021.