Cyberdyne

Japan’s Haneda Airport to deploy 3 types of robots from Cyberdyne

Frank Tobe 13 Jul 2015

View image | gettyimages.com [clear] Cyberdyne, the inventor of the HAL exoskeleton, is expanding their product line and Japan's Haneda Airport is their first customer....

3 exoskeleton companies go public

Frank Tobe 14 Jul 2014

First came Ekso Bionics with an alternative public offering that netted $30.3 million; then Cyberdyne let its stock be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange; and last week the WSJ reported that ReWalk Ro...

Service robots boost Danish welfare

Wolfgang Heller 03 Nov 2012

In 2006, Denmark created a fund of three billion Danish kronor ($519-million) to study how technologies like service robots can be used to replace manual labour in various public services. Social r...

Exoskeletons: New and old

Andra Keay 12 Oct 2012

With NASA's X1 Robotic Exoskeleton in the news today, it's timely to look at the increasing range of exoskeletons in development or use today. X1 (NASA, IHMC) Built in conjunction with...

Robots to the rescue as an aging Japan looks for help