Life at Trexo isn’t always about building cool gadgets and working with robots. More often than not, it is about the inspiration we receive daily from kids who at a young age face many obstacles and manage to find way …
Children’s mobility devices are about so much more than being mobile
When we first started working on a solution to help children learn to walk, we considered existing state-of-the-art assisive technologies in the field. In looking at emerging technologies such as exoskeletons, we were surprised to see that while there were …
Making assistive technology better through user-centricity
We’re learning directly from our end-users about what matters to them in the design of assistive technology. A glimpse into the experience of our users Ben is sitting on the Rifton gait trainer seat asking us questions about how the …
Praneit’s story
Trexo Robotics was inspired by a deeply personal experience that my family and I faced (see Trexo’s story). A few years ago, back then still an engineering student at the University of Waterloo, I learnt that my nephew was diagnosed …
The importance of creating access to walking for children with disabilities
We started working on building an assistive device for children with disabilities because Manmeet (CEO of Trexo Robotics) learned that his nephew was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and would not be able to walk (see Trexo Robotics’ story). We later …
Trexo Stories: meet Leo
This is our friend Leo. Leo is 7 years old and was born with SCN8A epilepsy. When we first met Leo and his dad Alex at Trexo, Leo couldn’t walk and had difficulties with balance. Despite that, they both came …