Our Robotic
Assistive
solutions
ORTHOPUS is developing a range of robotic solutions for people living with a muscular weakness, without arm mobility.
How ?
Our robotic assistants support or relieve the user’s arm to maintain daily autonomy.
Who is concerned ?
People with an upper-limb loss of mobility or a muscular weakness : neuromuscular condition, paralysis (after accidents, cancers, CVA), multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries, etc.
When ?
Our range of robotic assistants is designed to meet evolving disabilities and needs throughout life and are adaptable for children.
The orthopus
SUPPORTER
The ORTHOPUS Supporter is an innovative robotic assistant : it facilitates movements by reducing the arm’s weight.
Designed for people with limited strength, it cancels out the physical effort to lift the arm and perform all the gestures of daily life : eating, lifting objects, phonings, etc.
- Including neutral or customizable version
- Motorized robotic device
- Mountable on power wheelchair or table
AVAILABILITY : In 2022
MOVE MORE EASILY • STAY IN MOTION • GET MORE INDEPENDENCE
Upcoming solutions :
The orthopus
PARTNER
- Reduces gravity to facilitate vertical, back & forth movements
- Including neutral or customizable version
- Equipped with 3 motors
- Mountable on power wheelchair or a table
AVAILABILITY : 2023
The orthopus
EXPLORER
- To reach, grab, and manipulate objects
- Including neutral or customizable version
- Six-axis movement
- Mountable on power wheelchair
AVAILABILITY : 2024
SCIENTIFIC PARTNERSHIPS
collaborations scientifiques
For the development of these solutions, we are working in conjunction with health and research skateholders.
L’ESEAN AFP France Handicap, a healthcare facility dedicated to children and teenagers, brings its expertise in mobility impairment. The first arm support prototype has been co-developed in 2020-2021 with Pierre, a patient-user, from the ESEAN.
The project is also supported by the AFM Téléthon, the French Muscular Dystrophy Association which initiates innovative actions to fight neuromuscular diseases, and the Raymond-Poincaré Hospital of the APHP, specialised in children and adults with muscular diseases caring.
TECHNICAL PARTNERSHIPS
collaborations techniques
For the development of this range of solutions, we collaborate with IRT JULES VERNE, industrial research center for Advanced Manufacturing, and KICKMAKER, a consulting agency specialised in the industrialisation of high-tech products.
These partnerships aims to develop technological parts for our solutions :
– researching components
– designing a test bench
– optimizing kinematics, which means motion trajectories of robotic assistants optimization (grabbing a glass of water and bring it to the mouth, for example)
