Hippos Exoskeleton Inc.
Developer of wearable lower-limb enhancement systems that integrate multimodal on-body sensing, edge AI for next-state body prediction, and rapid actuation to prevent injury and augment performance. The group focuses on real-world data collection and clinical/biomechanical validation with defense and clinical partners to develop closed-loop wearable interventions for protection, augmentation, and broader consumer applications.
Industries
Nr. of Employees
small (1-50)
Patents
Products
Lower-limb enhancement core (sensors + edge compute + actuator)
A modular core unit combining distributed lower-limb sensing nodes, an edge AI module, battery, and an actuator interface to enable sensing→predict→act closed-loop functionality.
Combat trousers with integrated stabilization
Tactical trousers integrating the lower-limb core, distributed sensors, and embedded pneumatic stabilization cells beneath knee regions for duty and field operations.
Impact sleeve with integrated rapid-deploy protection
Padded knee sleeve with embedded sensing and a rapid-deploy inflatable protection element for impact and high-risk maneuvers.
Compression performance skin with embedded sensing and software
Compression garment providing high-performance sensing and software-driven readiness and recovery features for training and competition.
Everyday athleisure skin with embedded sensing for women
Everyday garment form factor with integrated sensing and software for daily movement monitoring and lightweight readiness features targeted at women.
Lower-limb enhancement core (sensors + edge compute + actuator)
A modular core unit combining distributed lower-limb sensing nodes, an edge AI module, battery, and an actuator interface to enable sensing→predict→act closed-loop functionality.
Combat trousers with integrated stabilization
Tactical trousers integrating the lower-limb core, distributed sensors, and embedded pneumatic stabilization cells beneath knee regions for duty and field operations.
Impact sleeve with integrated rapid-deploy protection
Padded knee sleeve with embedded sensing and a rapid-deploy inflatable protection element for impact and high-risk maneuvers.
Compression performance skin with embedded sensing and software
Compression garment providing high-performance sensing and software-driven readiness and recovery features for training and competition.
Everyday athleisure skin with embedded sensing for women
Everyday garment form factor with integrated sensing and software for daily movement monitoring and lightweight readiness features targeted at women.
Services
Deployment of wearable sensing systems for continuous biomechanical and physiological data collection in military and elite-sport settings.
Design and execution of lab and ex-vivo studies including cadaveric robotic testing, motion-capture experiments, and supervised clinical protocols for injury detection and intervention evaluation.
Development of predictive models for injury and fatigue, real-time inference engines, and integration of models into removable edge modules within garments.
Deployment of wearable sensing systems for continuous biomechanical and physiological data collection in military and elite-sport settings.
Design and execution of lab and ex-vivo studies including cadaveric robotic testing, motion-capture experiments, and supervised clinical protocols for injury detection and intervention evaluation.
Development of predictive models for injury and fatigue, real-time inference engines, and integration of models into removable edge modules within garments.
Expertise Areas
- Wearable device development and systems integration
- Biomechanical research and human motion modeling
- Edge AI and real-time on-device inference
- Closed-loop intervention systems engineering
Key Technologies
- Multimodal wearable sensors
- High-frequency data acquisition (6,400 Hz)
- Edge machine learning / on-device inference
- Closed-loop pneumatic actuation (airbag-type protection)
News & Updates
Clinical replication study reporting 100% within-patient injury classification in 2D latent space and 98.4–99.6% in 3D; identified femoral rotation rate as a discriminating feature and real-time localization of injury windows from raw 12-channel streams.
First labeled in-vivo dataset of ACL failure biomechanics on living humans; reported 22% greater rotational displacement and 58% faster rotational rate in ACL-deficient knees versus controls, with model accuracies of 93–99% for individualized profiles.
Collected 50+ hours of continuous high-intensity biomechanical data across 15 elite athletes in field conditions without skin irritation or measurable performance impairment.
Live-subject quantification across 17 athletes showing peak valgus angle reduced from 6.1° to 1.95° with interventions engaging within the ~60 ms injury window.
Robotic ex-vivo tests showing 10–25% reduction in tibial rotation under constant torque across flexion angles with angle-dependent protection and no coupling into adjacent axes.
Lab-based multi-task capture demonstrating halted knee flexion in 11 of 11 activations and partial lack of compensatory loading in trials using motion capture and force plate instrumentation.
Clinical replication study reporting 100% within-patient injury classification in 2D latent space and 98.4–99.6% in 3D; identified femoral rotation rate as a discriminating feature and real-time localization of injury windows from raw 12-channel streams.
First labeled in-vivo dataset of ACL failure biomechanics on living humans; reported 22% greater rotational displacement and 58% faster rotational rate in ACL-deficient knees versus controls, with model accuracies of 93–99% for individualized profiles.
Collected 50+ hours of continuous high-intensity biomechanical data across 15 elite athletes in field conditions without skin irritation or measurable performance impairment.
Live-subject quantification across 17 athletes showing peak valgus angle reduced from 6.1° to 1.95° with interventions engaging within the ~60 ms injury window.
Robotic ex-vivo tests showing 10–25% reduction in tibial rotation under constant torque across flexion angles with angle-dependent protection and no coupling into adjacent axes.
Lab-based multi-task capture demonstrating halted knee flexion in 11 of 11 activations and partial lack of compensatory loading in trials using motion capture and force plate instrumentation.