Exoskeleton Technology Has A Strong Showing At CES 2025

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Physical human augmentation is not uncommon at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show. Many electronic devices go beyond communication and are not afraid to move us: robotics, haptic or force feedback systems, smart fitness equipment, and, over the last decade, exoskeletons (sometimes called exosuits or wearable robotics). The 2025 CES was an unprecedented year for exoskeleton technology in terms of companies in attendance and awards.

CES 2025 Exoskeleton Awards:
Medical:
On the medical side, the Canadian startup Human in Motion Robotics impressed with its self-balancing walking-assist powered exoskeleton. Unlike most gait-assist wearable robots, the XoMotion does not require crutches, leaving the user’s hands-free to perform useful tasks. The company was a CES 2025 Honoree in Robotics and USA TODAY’s 50 Top Picks for CES 2025.

Staying with the medical exoskeleton theme, South Korea’s HUROTICS Inc. won the innovation award in Accessibility & AgeTech, Robotics for the H-Medi, a more classical-looking AI-driven wearable robot designed to counteract gait disorders.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University also became a 2025 Honoree in Accessibility & AgeTech for its novel Mobile Ankle-foot Exoneuromusculoskeleton, combining soft pneumatic muscles, muscle electric stimulation, and sensory feedback into a single battery-powered wearable system.

While Wandercraft did not exhibit at CES 2025, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang featured the medical exoskeleton in the opening keynote, marking a tremendous win in popularizing exoskeleton technology.
Consumer:

Hypershell’s Carbon X-powered hip exoskeleton for hiking and exercise received a 2025 Best of Innovation in Robotics recognition. The company has come a long way since its 2023 Kickstarter campaign, which took the technical world by storm.
Simultaneously, the South Korean WIRobotics was also recognized in the Robotics category for its WIM exoskeleton, a small, portable unit that attaches to the front like a fanny pack. This makes the wearable ideal for hikers, as the system does not interfere with backpacks.
Industrial:
Having already won an award last year, German Bionic used the opportunity to release a new version of its back-support powered hip exoskeleton: the Apogee ULTRA, marketed as the “World’s Most Powerful” mass-produced exoskeleton. The Apogee Ultra can provide up to 80 lbs (36 kg) of lifting support.
Fleshing Out the List of Presenters:
In total, more than ten exoskeleton companies and universities presented exoskeleton products at the 2025 CES. The Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan will exhibit two novel exoskeletons. The first was KneeBO, a portable knee joint exoskeleton meant for lower-limb muscle training and walking improvement. The second one was HipBO an independent lightweight hip joint function assistance device derived from lower-limb exoskeleton robots.
Cosmo Robotics, formerly ExoAtlet and maker of both occupational and medical exoskeletons, was also a presenter at CES 2025, as were ULS Robotics and OYMotion Technologies.
This year, CES had the largest selection of exoskeleton products on display. As a product family, exo devices swept 1% of all the awards at the show. This represents a visible growth and maturation of this new technology field of physical human augmentation, which can potentially improve the lives of workers, the mobility impaired, and the elderly.

Epic Games CEO Blasts Big Tech for Being Fake Democrats Now ‘Pretending’ to Be Republicans

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Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Fortnite developer Epic Games and a frequent critic of Apple and Google, has accused the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe of cozying up to President-elect Donald Trump in an attempt to influence the administration’s antitrust policies. Sweeney wrote, “After years of pretending to be Democrats, Big Tech leaders are now pretending to be Republicans, in hopes of currying favor with the new administration.”
TechSpot reports that in a recent social media post, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney called out the hypocrisy of tech leaders who previously aligned themselves with leftist ideology but are now pivoting toward the Trump administration. His comments follow pledges from several major tech companies, including Google and Apple, to donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. Apple CEO Tim Cook, who has forged a personal relationship with Trump, is making the contribution personally.

“After years of pretending to be Democrats, Big Tech leaders are now pretending to be Republicans, in hopes of currying favor with the new administration,” Sweeney tweeted. “Beware of the scummy monopoly campaign to vilify competition law as they rip off consumers and crush competitors.”
Sweeney’s criticism is rooted in his ongoing battles with Apple and Google over smartphone software distribution. The Epic Games CEO has long advocated for the ability to sell games on iPhones and Android devices without being forced to use the official app stores and payment processing systems of these tech giants, arguing that the current system unfairly monopolizes the mobile software market.
While Sweeney has made some progress in Europe, the situation in the United States remains largely unchanged. Last year, he vowed to continue fighting until achieving “an ultimate victory” over what he describes as Apple and Google’s “totally broken vision for the world.”
The tech industry’s apparent pivot toward the Trump administration extends beyond Apple and Google. Amazon and Meta have also made million-dollar donations to the inauguration. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken the additional step of relaxing Facebook’s content moderation policies – including scrapping its biased third-party “fact checking” program that skewed heavily to the left. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expressed enthusiasm for the incoming administration as well, pledging the GPU maker’s support.

President-elect Trump himself has remarked on the change in attitude from tech leaders, saying, “The first term, everybody was fighting me. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.”
Read more at TechSpot here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship

Back so soon? Ellen DeGeneres is seen in Montecito weeks after ‘leaving US for good’ and moving to rural England post-Trump win

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By JILL ISHKANIAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 11:21 EST, 13 January 2025 | Updated: 11:24 EST, 13 January 2025 Just a few months after relocating to rural England and vowing never to return following Donald Trump‘s election win, Ellen DeGeneres is back in the good ol’ USA.  The 66-year-old talk show host apparently couldn’t stay away…

Zuckerberg asks Trump to intervene over EU fines on US tech firms

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President-elect Trump should push back on efforts in Europe and other countries to crack down on the US tech industry, according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg, who has scrambled to ingratiate himself with Trump since the president-elect’s win in the 2024 presidential election, made the case for stronger government support during an appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast last Friday.

“I think it’s a strategic advantage for the United States that we have a lot of the strongest companies in the world, and I think it should be part of the US strategy going forward to defend that,” Zuckerberg said. “It’s one of the things I’m optimistic about with President Trump is, I think he just wants America to win.”

Mark Zuckerberg argued the US government should help defend American tech firms from international penalties. The Joe Rogan Experience

EU antitrust officials have imposed a series of harsh fines totaling “more than $30 billion” over the last decade or so, Zuckerberg added. Last July, the EU charged Meta with violating its sweeping tech competition law – which could ultimately result in fines of up to 10% of its global revenue, or nearly $13.5 billion.

Zuckerberg, who met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, argued the fines are “almost like a tariff” and have become “sort of like an EU-wide policy for how they want to deal with American tech.”

“If some other country was screwing with another industry that we cared about, the US government would probably find some way to put pressure on them, but I think what happened here is actually the complete opposite,” Zuckerberg said.

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Trump has historically clashed with Zuckerberg and Meta – once referring to Facebook as “a true enemy of the people” and repeatedly accusing the social media giant of censorship and election interference.

However, Zuckerberg has taken several steps to mend fences with the incoming administration – including appointing a Republican as the company’s top policy executive, ending fact-checking programs and killing DEI initiatives that have long irritated conservatives.

Zuckerberg has tried to cozy up to President-elect Trump in recent days. The Washington Post via Getty Images

Zuckerberg isn’t the only Big Tech executive who has pressed Trump to weigh in on Europe’s enforcement actions.

Last October, Trump said he had received a call from Apple CEO Tim Cook – who grumbled that the iPhone maker has faced billions of dollars in fines overseas.

“Two hours ago, three hours ago, he (Cook) called me,” Trump told podcaster Patrick Bet-David at the time. “He said the European Union has just fined us $15 billion. … Then on top of that they got fined by the European Union another $2 billion,” Trump added.

Mark Zuckerberg appeared on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast last week. Joe Rogan/Instagram

During his nearly three-hour interview with Rogan, Zuckerberg said Biden officials had phoned executives at Meta to “scream” and “curse” at them while demanding that they remove any negative posts about the coronavirus vaccine on Facebook.

He also criticized Meta rival Apple, asserting that the company hasn’t “really invented anything great in a while.”