Lower-body exoskeleton
WALK
FURTHER
It reads your stride and gives back the effort. Twenty miles feels like twelve.
In development in Toronto. Not yet available to buy.
It reads your stride and gives back the effort. Twenty miles feels like twelve.
In development in Toronto. Not yet available to buy.
XO follows the walk you are already taking. It reads movement at the hips, anticipates the next part of the stride, then adds effort where it can help.
Motion sensors at both hips find the rhythm you are already walking at.
The motors need something solid to work against. The belt locks onto your pelvis so the force goes into your skeleton instead of shifting around on you.
It braces your lower back while it does it, the way a loaded pack hipbelt does.
XO is still in development. This site is the beginning: a place to share the prototype, the decisions behind it, and what we learn on the way to a small first run.
Follow the buildEvery exoskeleton made today, ours included, works out what you are doing by watching your body do it. That inference is the ceiling on how natural assist can feel.
XO is built by people who work on how the brain encodes movement. We are starting with people who can walk, because that is how you collect enough real walking to be any use to the people who cannot.
| Weight | 2,850 g, including battery |
| Assist | Up to 18.4 N·m per hip |
| Battery | About 4 hours of walking. Swaps without tools. |
| Noise | Under 40 dBA at full assist |
| Weather | Sealed to IP66. Rain and dust, not submersion. |
| Fit | Waist 28 to 46 in. One size. |
Preliminary figures, subject to change. XO is a consumer product, not a medical device.
Occasional prototype notes, field updates, and first-run news. The first units will go to this list first.