Wearable Technology News
Latest Wearable Technology news and analysis — 11 articles tagged Wearable Technology on The Robotics Media.
- Meta Patches Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Privacy LED Loophole — — Meta is rolling out a software update that stops Ray-Ban Meta and Meta Smart Glasses from recording if the front-facing capture LED is covered mid-cap...
- Vessl Prosthetics Wins FDA Clearance for Kinn Auto-Adjusting Socket — — Canadian startup Vessl Prosthetics has cleared FDA for Kinn, a passive socket system that uses gait energy to auto-adjust fit for lower-limb amputees...
- Wandercraft's Eve Wins FDA Clearance As First Self-Balancing Personal Exoskeleton — — Wandercraft's Eve becomes the first self-balancing personal exoskeleton cleared by the FDA for home use by eligible wheelchair users with spinal cord...
- Lotte Global Logistics And FRT Robotics Ink AI Wearable Robot Pact — — Lotte Global Logistics and FRT Robotics will jointly develop AI-powered wearable exoskeletons for South Korean warehouses under the government's AX Sp...
- TUM Soft-Hand Exoskeleton Restores Grip For ALS And Stroke Patients — — TUM researchers have built a low-cost pneumatic glove that reads faint forearm EMG signals with 97% accuracy and helped an ALS patient hold a fork for...
- Even Realities Hits $1B Valuation With $150M Pre-Series B From Meituan And Tencent — — Camera-free smart glasses maker Even Realities has raised $150 million led by Meituan and Tencent, minting a $1 billion valuation for its display-firs...
- Linked Exoskeletons Let Therapists Walk With Stroke Patients — — Northwestern University and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab virtually connect therapist and patient exoskeletons at the hips and knees, letting therapists sha...
- Sumbu's Dual-Vector Exo-S3 Exoskeleton Hits Shelves In June At $1,199 — — Sumbu's Exo-S3 — the world's first commercially available dual-vector consumer exoskeleton — opens for purchase in June 2026, with three trims targeti...
- US Army Unveils IBEX Exoskeleton to Self-Evacuate Wounded — — The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command's seven-pound Intrepid Battlefield EXoskeleton (IBEX) lets soldiers with lower-leg injuries sta...
- Medtronic to Acquire SPR Therapeutics for $650 Million — — Medtronic will pay about $650 million in cash for SPR Therapeutics, adding temporary peripheral nerve stimulation technology for chronic pain to its n...
- UCLA Students Win $10,000 Prize for Sign Language Translation Gloves — — UCLA engineering students created gloves that translate American Sign Language into speech, winning the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for their innovatio...