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🧭 WHAT MOVES US

Social impact: our compass

What drives us, guides our course, and keeps us focused on what truly matters.

Our actions in the field

All year round

Person seated in a powered wheelchair equipped with a robotic arm (ORTHOPUS Partner) interacting with another person across a table during a beta test session.

User and partner involvement

Co-design, Pirate Council, social impact committee, user interviews: we bake our community’s insights straight into our product development and company strategy.

A healthcare professional in blue medical scrubs and a surgical mask, seated at a table, using a robotic assistive arm during a demonstration session, while a colleague watches in the background.

Open knowledge & clear pricing

From clear pricing to arm-mobility resources, we publish maximum data. Knowledge is freedom: we want users in control and therapists fully powered.

Two Orthopus team members sitting on a sofa, smiling and working on laptops in a warm wooden office space, with a large yellow octopus plush toy between them and Orthopus branded items on the coffee table.

Crew transparency

Every crew member has full access to company data—including salary grids, cash flow, and strategic directions. Trust goes both ways.

Socially Responsible Company of Public Benefit

Since 2019, ORTHOPUS has been certified as an ESUS company and recognized as a Social and Solidarity Economy enterprise. This status, granted by the French government, is awarded based on specific criteria, including: pursuing a social or public-interest mission, implementing democratic governance that involves the company’s stakeholders, adhering to a regulated remuneration policy, and reinvesting the majority of profits into the company’s operations.

What we track

To adjust our course

User feedback

What works—and what doesn’t—for the people living with our robots (interviews and forms)

Distributors' satisfaction

Their honest take on our partnership and gear quality

Team happiness

Checked every 6 months during one-on-one chats

Our commitments

For society and the planet

Since 2024, we’ve been backed by the Fertilidée cooperative —experts in Corporate Social Responsibility, aka 'CSR' - to build a business that actually respects people and the planet.

Based on our actual impact, we launched 4 action groups.

The crew took the helm on the following tracks:
✍️ Partnering with responsible, eco-friendly suppliers
✍️ Onboarding diverse talents to keep our crew inclusive at every level
✍️ Measuring and slashing waste in our robot engineering
✍️ Amplifying our users' voices to build exactly what they need

No sugar-coating

We want to do better, but the reality is that, all too often:
đźš© We work with suppliers outside the EU for reasons of lead times and cost.
đźš© Gathering user feedback is a real headache because there are two intermediaries between us.
đźš© Robotics is polluting: rare earth elements, components sourced from all over the world.

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