German Bionic Apogee

Quote onlyGerman Bionic sells and leases to companies and publishes no list price. Engadget reported the healthcare variant Apogee+ at $9,900 per unit (Jan 2025) (estimate), and the Apogee ULTRA was reported at about $470 per unit per month (£350) on a rental basis at its CES 2025 pre-order launch (unconfirmed).

AvailableApp-adjustedBack & hip exoskeletonUp to 36 kg lift supportWalking assistConnect app

Weeks+Sold and leased to companies through German Bionic's sales team, with on-site demos and fleet onboarding rather than a store, so lead time is set per contract. Contact German Bionic ↗

Control: Settings, assist modes and usage data are handled from the Connect phone app and the IO web platform.

Official site ↗Engadget on the Apogee ULTRA ↗Exoskeleton Report ↗

Overview

The Apogee is German Bionic's second-generation powered back and hip exoskeleton, shown at CES in January 2023 as the successor to the 2018 Cray X, with up to 30 kg of lift support per movement and active walking assistance for logistics, manufacturing and baggage handling. Two siblings followed, the Apogee+ tuned for nurses and care workers, and the Apogee ULTRA from CES 2025 with up to 36 kg (80 lb) of support, over-the-air updates and app-based performance tracking, which took pre-orders from January 2025. Since May 2025 the company's flagship is the Exia with 38 kg of support, and the official site now lists Apogee only as an "other product", so whether the ULTRA stays in the line long term is unclear (unconfirmed). Units are sold or leased to companies through the sales team with no public pricing, with the only published figures being the $9,900 Apogee+ and a reported ULTRA rental of about $470 per month (unconfirmed). Rivals in the same class include the IX BACK VOLTON at 17 kg and the soft SafeLift.

Specifications

Category	Exoskeletons & exosuits · Industrial & work
Released	2023
Country	Germany
Availability	Available
Programmability	No SDK, app / visual programming only
Built-in autonomy	Reactive · Responds to its surroundings without a map, such as avoiding obstacles or following a person
LLM support	None · No voice assistant or LLM.
Vision sensors	No vision sensors
Actuators	Brushless / direct-drive motors
Audio	No audio
Compute type	Proprietary / undisclosed
Control	App-adjusted
Weight	~7.5 kg (unconfirmed)
Assistance	Motors at the hips take up to 30 kg (66 lb) of load per lift on the Apogee and up to 36 kg (80 lb) on the Apogee ULTRA, so a 32 kg lift feels like about 4 to 5 kg, and both add active walking assistance that the maker says makes a 10-mile shift feel like 8.
Joints	Back & hips
Battery & runtime	Removable battery pack sized for a working shift, exact capacity not published (unconfirmed).
Operation	Buttons on the unit plus the German Bionic Connect phone app for assist modes and usage statistics, with fleet data in the German Bionic IO cloud platform.
Sensors	Motion sensors in the hip units that detect lifting, lowering and walking; the maker says the control software is trained on fleet motion data from thousands of users.
Compute	Not published
SDK	None