Honest, human, safe.
MobilityMachines exists for a simple reason: moving through your own life should not be a luxury. Here is what we are building, how we intend to build it, and the honest limits we hold ourselves to.
A machine that works with your clinicians.
Who can safely use a powered exoskeleton is a medical question – and it belongs with the people who know your body.
Stride is designed to be set up and reviewed alongside your doctors and therapists, supporting the care you already have rather than trying to replace it. We build assistive technology; we do not give medical advice, and nothing on this site is a diagnosis or a treatment plan.
When there is a real next step – a trial, a fitting, a study – we intend to take it the right way, with clinical partners and the honest evidence to back it.
Four principles behind everything.
These are not marketing lines. They shape what we build, what we measure, and what we refuse to claim.
Assistance, not replacement
Stride is designed to share the work of moving – not to take over your body or your judgement. You set the direction and the pace; the frame carries part of the load. Everything about it, from IntentSense following your lead to SoftStop yielding when you resist, is built so that you stay in charge of your own movement.
Built with your care team, not around it
Who can safely use a powered exoskeleton, and how, is a medical question – and it belongs with your clinicians. Stride is designed to be set up and reviewed with the people who already know your body and your goals. We are building assistive technology to support that care, never to replace a doctor, a therapist, or their advice.
Honest about what it is – and is not
Stride is a concept in active development. It is not yet a cleared medical device, it is not a cure, and it is not a promise that anyone will walk or stand a particular way. It is a machine designed to assist mobility, with real limits we are still measuring. We would rather tell you that plainly than sell you a miracle.
Safe first, helpful second
An assistive machine has to earn trust before it earns praise. We are designing Stride to fail gently – to yield, hold, and help you to a stable position rather than fight to the last instant – and to prove its safety through real testing and, in time, the regulatory pathways that assistive devices must pass. We will publish what we learn, including the hard parts.
The frame never forces you.
Underneath every system is one rule: Stride is designed never to push a joint past where you want it to go. If a sensor reading is uncertain, or you resist, the actuators are meant to yield and hold rather than fight – and if the frame senses it cannot safely keep you upright, the goal is a controlled, gentle response toward a stable or seated position.
We are honest about the limit of that promise. An assistive machine can reduce risk; it cannot abolish it. No wearable device can guarantee you will never fall, and we will publish real safety figures as testing matures rather than imply certainty we have not earned.