Medical
Medicare set a payment rate for personal exoskeletons for home use, starting with the ReWalk Personal and the Indego Personal.
A dated step forward on the record
What the source says
“The two devices immediately impacted are the Lifeward (previously ReWalk Robotics) ReWalk Personal Exoskeleton”
What it means
Medical exoskeletons, from Lifeward (ReWalk), Wandercraft, Ekso Bionics (owned by Wandercraft since Oct 2026), is at stage 5 of 5 on our ladder: regulator-cleared or mass market. Its stage is set by other milestones on its record; this one adds to the history.
Human help: A staff member rides along, ready to stop it.
More on Medical exoskeletons
- Wandercraft bought Ekso Bionics from ChronoScale and said it would keep supporting Atalante X, EksoNR, Eve and Indego Personal. The price was not disclosed.
- Wandercraft said the FDA cleared Eve, a self-balancing exoskeleton for personal use, for adults with spinal cord injuries at any level, used with a trained companion.
- Ekso's parent company, renamed ChronoScale and moving into cloud computing, said it would sell the Ekso exoskeleton business.
- The FDA cleared the ReWalk 7 Personal Exoskeleton from Lifeward (510(k) K241822) for indoor and outdoor walking, including stairs and curbs.
- Ekso Bionics bought the Indego exoskeleton business from Parker Hannifin for $10 million.
- The FDA cleared the Ekso GT for use in rehab centres with people who have had a stroke or a spinal cord injury.