
Overview
EksoNR is the clinic gait trainer from Ekso Bionics, launched in August 2019 as the successor to the Ekso GT (2013) and sold only to certified inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation centres, never to individuals. It is FDA cleared for stroke and spinal cord injury (as Ekso GT, April 2016), acquired brain injury (June 2020) and multiple sclerosis (2022, (unconfirmed) since sources give 2021 or 2022), which Ekso says makes it the only exoskeleton cleared for ABI and MS, and it carries a CE mark. Patients from 152 to 193 cm and under 100 kg use it under a trained physical therapist, with crutches or a walker for balance, and Ekso cites more than 200 publications and 185 clinical trials behind it. The 25 kg device is self-supporting and moves between patients on a cart. On 2026-10-01 Wandercraft bought Ekso Bionics, so EksoNR now shares an owner with the self-balancing Atalante X, and the two are in use at more than 700 rehab centres combined. The personal-use sibling is the Ekso Indego Personal.
Specifications
| Category | Exoskeletons & exosuits · Medical & rehabilitation |
|---|---|
| Released | 2019 |
| Country | USA |
| Availability | Available |
| Sales | More than 300 units in 30-plus countries as of 2021, and Wandercraft said in October 2026 that EksoNR and Atalante X together serve more than 700 rehabilitation centres. (estimate) Exoskeleton Report ↗ |
| 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. |
| Best for | Ages 18+ (maker rating) |
| Vision sensors | No vision sensors |
| Actuators | Brushless / direct-drive motors |
| Audio | Speaker |
| Compute type | Proprietary / undisclosed |
| Control | App-adjusted |
| Weight | About 25 kg (55 lb) with batteries, carried by its own frame rather than the patient |
| Assistance | Motorized hips and knees that can walk a non-ambulatory patient fully, or scale back to variable assist per leg as the patient recovers (SmartAssist). It also runs pre-gait exercises such as balance, weight shift, squats and stepping in place, and the GaitCoach software flags gait deviations in real time. |
| Joints | Hips & knees |
| Battery & runtime | Swappable lithium-ion battery packs. Session runtime is not published (unconfirmed). |
| Operation | A physical therapist runs each session from a tablet or wireless controller with real-time per-leg settings, while session metrics (time, distance, speed) upload to the EksoPulse cloud dashboard. Patients get visual and auditory cues for gait correction. |
| Sensors | Joint encoders, inertial sensors and foot sensors feeding the adaptive gait software (sensor details not published). |
| Compute | Not published |
| SDK | None |
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