RoboCT brings in $15M for robotic exoskeletons

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RoboCT’s UGO exoskeleton robotic is used to assist folks learn to stroll. | Supply: RoboCT
Hangzhou RoboCT Know-how Growth Co., a developer of robotic exoskeletons, introduced that it introduced in over $15.7 million (RMB 100 million) in collection A+ funding. The corporate plans to make use of the funding to increase globally and enhance its operation and commercialization capabilities. 
RobotCT’s UGO exoskeleton robotic is a rehabilitation robotic that helps sufferers who expertise motor dysfunction within the decrease physique learn to stroll. Sufferers which have suffered from spinal wire accidents, strokes, decrease limb muscle weak spot and different nervous system ailments have benefited from the robotic, which is at work in over 200 hospitals in China. 
The corporate was the primary in China to obtain the Nationwide Medical Merchandise Administration (NMPA) registration certificates for lower-limb exoskeleton robots for central neuropathy. 
“RoboCT’s exoskeleton has obtained extraordinarily optimistic suggestions from sufferers and hospitals,” Wang Tian, CEO of RobotCT, stated. “We’re honored that our dedication has been acknowledged by the business and by prime institutional buyers who share our imaginative and prescient within the early phases of RoboCT’s institution. We’re conscious that we’re shouldering an important social accountability and imagine we will turn into a top-tier firm inside the business.”
Fortune Capital led the funding spherical, which additionally included participation from new buyers, like Essence Securities, Poly Capital, and an current investor, Blue Run Ventures China. 
“We imagine in RoboCT’s means to remodel rehabilitation and convey autonomy to folks with diminished mobility,” Jui Tan, managing associate at Blue Run Ventures China, stated. “Together with the aged inhabitants, rising incidence of bodily debilitation holds the important thing to the expansion of assistive robotics in China. The widespread use of exoskeleton robots is an inevitable development sooner or later.”
Based on RoboCT, the corporate has produced over 100,000 UGO exoskeletons to this point. The corporate claims its sturdy provide chain has allowed it to push manufacturing prices down, permitting it to pump out the exoskeletons at a a lot bigger scale. The corporate gives its exoskeleton as a robotic as a service (RaaS), making adoption simpler for hospitals.