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As an aging population grows larger due to healthcare advances, mobility issues will no doubt be a larger issue in the future.
Some are looking for new innovations to keep people moving in the case of the elderly or to augment how workers stave off injuries doing manual labor or industrial jobs.
Enter Hypershell’s Hyper X Carbon exoskeleton. The exoskeleton is lightweight and able to work for those that spend time in the field or hiking different terrain or have mobility issues overall.
The company said it could also be used for sports, cycling or rescue and inspection jobs where workers need a boost in productivity or support.
The exoskeleton includes a host of MEMS and sensors to monitor the body and the ability to control the resistance on either leg through motor controllers.
The following is a partial deep dive into the exoskeleton conducted by TechInsights.
Price: $1615.68
Released: January 2025
Target market: Consumer
Availability: Worldwide
The main board of the Hypershell X Carbon exoskeleton. Source: TechInsights
Main board
The main board of the Hypershell X Carbon exoskeleton includes the following electronic components:
- Injoinic Technology’s battery charger
- Semtech’s TVS diode array
- QST’s nine-axis MEMS accelerometer, gyroscope and compass, and three-axis electronic compass
- TDK-InvenSense’s digital barometric pressure and temperature sensor
- Texas Instruments’ 2-amp synchronous step-down converter and 150 mA/3.3 volt LDO regulator
- Silergy’s LDO regulator
- Silicon Labs’ USB to UART bridge
(Learn more about MEMS on GlobalSpec.com)
Motor controller board
There are two motor control boards on the Hypershell X Carbon exoskeleton that include these electronic components:
- MaxLinear’s 3.3 volt LDO regulator
- ST Microelectronics’ ARM Cortex-M4 32-bit microcontroller
- Texas Instruments’ three-phase motor driver with DC-DC converter
- AMS’ 14-bit magnetic position sensor
- SiT’s CAN transceiver
(Learn more about transceivers on GlobalSpec.com)
The battery board of the Hypershell X Carbon exoskeleton. Source: TechInsights
Battery board
On the battery board of the Hypershell X Carbon exoskeleton includes electronic components from the following vendors:
- Texas Instruments’ battery pack management
- Nisshinbo Micro Devices’ battery protection IC
- NXP Semiconductors’ real-time clock/calendar
(Learn more about battery devices on GlobalSpec.com)
Some of the electronic components found in the Hypershell X Carbon exoskeleton. Source: TechInsights
Major components
- $22.00 — Motor: BLDC (Qty: 1)
- $22.00 — Motor: BLDC (Qty: 1)
- $21.36 — Leg lever (Qty: 2)
- $20.04 — Hip lever tube (Qty: 2)
- $12.65 — Battery subsystem — Hypershell Co., Ltd. (Qty: 1)
- $8.29 — Hip lever (Qty: 1)
- $6.30 — Side motor frame (Qty: 2)
- $5.13 — Hip belt w/buckle (Qty: 1)
- $5.02 — Leg strap w/buckle (Qty: 2)
- $2.99 — Wi-Fi/BT Subsystem — Espressif (Qty: 1)
