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NAPA Center x Trexo
We’re thrilled to announce a partnership with the NAPACenter starting August 2019. About the NAPA center The first time we visited the NAPA Center in Los Angeles, we knew we found a home for the Trexo Plus. Since being founded in 2008 by Lynette LaScala, whose son...
Trexo features to help your child achieve all their goals
It can be difficult to accommodate the needs of a diverse group of children with just one device. Each person and each disability are unique, and as a result, they will need different levels of assistance to work towards their goals. One size can never truly fit all,...
Trexo sizing and height requirements
Like any assistive equipment, proper fitting is key to get the most of your Trexo. It is important that your child meets the size requirements to use the Trexo correctly and prevent any discomfort. The size restrictions are related to the Rifton Dynamic Walker and the...
Iris's story: how Trexo helped her start taking independent steps
Our friend Iris has blown us away with her progress after using the Trexo for five months. Read on about how Iris has been using the Trexo and see the before and after Trexo Home in the video below. Iris's story is meant to share her experience only. The following is...
Trexo: a Physiotherapist's Perspective
As a physiotherapist who has been working with the paediatric population for over 27 years, I was very excited and intrigued by this new technology. I discovered Trexo a few years ago when it was in its infancy and have followed the continuing changes that have been...
Kaiden's Story: how he rediscovered his love for walking with the Trexo
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 to persevere with a smile on their faces. The...
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 a growing...
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 robot works. Around him is our...
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 with Cerebral Palsy. Like many...
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 learned that walking...