Transforming Rehabilitation with Wearable Soft Robotics: XoMuscle Empowering Movement in Patients with Disabilities

Due to the bulkiness of traditional rehabilitation robotic devices, stroke rehabilitation training can never take place outside the hospitals, and it is difficult to apply on shoulder and wrist joints for their complex movements. This is not favorable for assisting stroke patients in performing daily tasks at home, which directly reduces the effectiveness of stroke recovery. However, the XoMuscle is smaller and lighter. Patients can even integrate it into their daily life to deal with any daily activity.

• Bionic Design with Compact, Flexible and High Efficiency
• The system is also designed to use brain waves or muscle signals to facilitate motor relearning using brain-machine interfaces (BCI) and myoelectric sensors

• Quickly produced using 3D printing technique with winding
• A biceps size muscle capable lifting a 20kg water bucket

• Gold Medal, Prize of the China Association of Inventions (CAI), Prize of the United Inventors Association of America (UIA) at Silicon Valley International Inventions Festival 2024
• Special grand prize and Gold Medal with the Congratulations of the Jury at 48th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva

• A wearable artificial muscle (XoMuscle) is twice as strong as human muscles and can support weights of up to 20kg.
• A design inspired by the behaviour of human skeletal muscle – specifically an area of muscles where filaments cross each other, so that the overlapping parts generate contractile motion.
• In addition to its strength, XoMuscle is also light as a feather, thin as a whisper and comfortable as a second skin.
• From hands to ankles, and from wrists to shoulders, XoMuscle is an exciting tool in training.

• Tong KY, Li Z, Xie D, Siu Y, Improved artificial muscle for robotics systems US Patent application number: 17/664,124