Overground walking
Ceiling rail
Weight relief that follows the user along a ceiling track.
RoboTrainer · affordable rehabilitation robotics
Training beyond the point of no return.
A cable-drive weight-unloading robot that lets stroke survivors, neurological patients and deconditioned wheelchair users keep training — at a fraction of the cost of today’s hospital systems.
- Unit price
- €25,000
- 4–7× below incumbent systems
- Per session
- ~€120
- Viable for clinics, care homes and home use
- European patent
- EP 3 936 197
- Granted June 2025 · EPO · UK · NO · ES
- Peer-reviewed research
- 9+ years
- Incl. an ongoing randomized clinical trial
The problem
€100,000–€200,000
Typical price of rehabilitation robotics today
At that price, rehabilitation robots stay locked inside elite hospitals.
Stroke survivors, neurological patients and deconditioned wheelchair users past the acute window are routinely written off as “chronic” and stop receiving meaningful therapy. Millions decline avoidably.
The RoboTrainer solution
One system. Three configurations.
RoboTrainer supports the user against gravity during walking and therapeutic exercise. It can be operated by therapists, helpers or family members — in clinics, care homes, and eventually at home.
Treadmill training
Fixed overhead
Stationary mount above a treadmill for high training volume.
Strength therapy
Wall / floor mount
Pulley-redirected resistance for sit-to-stand, squats and strength work.
Designed for users with 10–20% residual muscle strength.
- Stroke
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson’s
- Post-surgical
- Deconditioned
Real outcomes
The recovery the system misses.
A documented Danish case — and an independent user’s eight-month echo.
Case · Tina
Wheelchair → independence in 4 months
Tina — an office worker and mother — suffered a cerebral haemorrhage with one-sided paralysis. Over two years she trained intensively across Denmark’s leading rehabilitation centres without leaving her wheelchair. The public system then discharged her: “no potential for further rehabilitation.” The family installed a stair lift and arranged help for every daily task.
She joined a body-weight unloading trial at the University of Southern Denmark — 90 minutes, three times weekly, for four months, initially supported with 25–60% of her weight. By the end of the trial she stood independently, bore her own weight, and climbed stairs. She transitioned to conventional training without unloading.
Today Tina walks with a cane. She gets in and out of bed, uses the bathroom, dresses, and lives her day independently — the freedoms her rehabilitation team had written off.
Case · Jonas
700 m → 3 km in 8 months
A wheelchair user deconditioned after an extended passive period, training twice weekly — intermittently — on treadmill walking, sit-to-stand and squats. Walking distance fourfold, speed doubled.
“Treadmill walking with unloading improve my condition! Eight months ago I struggled to walk 700m, Today I walked three kilometres. The technology that made the difference costs one-fifth of the alternatives.”
Scientific foundation
Built on peer-reviewed science.
More than nine years of continuous research, from foundational robotics to an ongoing randomized clinical trial.
Randomized clinical trial — ongoing
- 2024
Robot-assisted vs. standard training in subacute ischemic stroke (RoboRehab).
Biomechanical validation
- 2024
Acute effects of body-weight unloading on overground walking.
- 2025
Sit-to-stand and stair-walking with dynamic body-weight unloading.
Clinical integration / HCI
- 2025
Therapist-robot collaboration in gait rehabilitation.
- 2024
Design goals for end-user development of robot-assisted training.
Foundational research
- 2016
Low-cost modular robotic system for neurological rehabilitative training.
- 2018
RoBody interaction: kinesthetic HRI.
Team
The people behind RoboTrainer.
Engineering from the University of Southern Denmark’s robotics institute, shaped from day one by the people who train on it.
Founder · Inventor of RoboTrainer
Anders Stengaard Sørensen
Associate Professor, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark
Anders trained as a shipbuilder at Lindø and started his career building welding robots at Odense Steel Shipyard, followed by robotics spin-outs within the Maersk group.
At SDU he holds a PhD and an MSc in Electronic Engineering, and has developed rehabilitation robotics since the first RoboTrainer prototype in 2011 — co-authoring the trial, biomechanics and clinical-integration studies above.
- PhD, Electronic Engineering
- Associate Professor, SDU
- Robotics since the 1990s
Jonas Grau Thomsen
User ambassador
Independent RoboTrainer user — from 700 m to 3 km of walking in eight months. Demonstrates the system at events and site visits.
Placeholder
Commercial lead
To be announced
TODO: CEO / commercial co-founder — sales to municipalities, clinics and care homes.
Placeholder
Clinical advisor
To be announced
TODO: neurorehabilitation physician or physiotherapist lead, e.g. from the RoboRehab trial.
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Regulatory & quality advisor
To be announced
TODO: EU MDR / CE-marking expertise.
Investment case
Why RoboTrainer
Intellectual property
EP 3 936 197
European patent granted June 2025 (EPO · UK · NO · ES).
Economics
4–7× cheaper
Unit price €25,000 and ~€120 per session — viable for community clinics, care homes, LMIC deployment and home use.
Evidence
RCT underway
Randomized clinical trial in subacute stroke, plus biomechanical and clinical-integration studies.
Impact alignment
- SDG 3 Good Health & Well-being
- SDG 5 Gender Equality
- SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
For investors & partners
In active conversation with mission-aligned investors and distribution partners.
To discuss investment, distribution or clinical partnerships, contact the founder directly.