Emerging technologies initially develop at a slow pace and that is due in large part to the lack of resources available to students. Complex technology is built on existing knowledge and higher education students need the tools to gain hands-on experience. To help educate the next generation of exoskeleton engineers, Auxivo has just introduced the newly updated EduExo Pro exoskeleton kit.

The Auxivo EduExo Pro is an educational exoskeleton platform designed to help students learn fundamentals via a project-based learning approach, with enough flexibility for those students to experiment with their own designs. It originally launched on Kickstarter in 2021 and now Auxivo has released an updated version.

The hardware in the kit consists of structural parts, mechanical components, motorized actuators, sensors, and control electronics. The kit includes everything necessary — except 3D-printed parts — to build a full-arm exoskeleton that has a 2DOF (degrees of freedom) shoulder joint and a 1DOF elbow joint.

For maximum compatibility and versatility, the Auxivo EduExo Pro operates under the control of an Arduino Nano 33 IoT board. Students can take advantage of the powerful Arduino IDE to program sophisticated behaviors and integrate that with other software, such as Unity 3D. 

The provided handbook will walk students through assembling and programming the arm exoskeleton, but educators can also create their own curriculums or let students devise new designs. That makes the Auxivo EduExo Pro perfect for high school and university-level engineering courses. 

The Auxivo EduExo Pro is available on the Auxivo shop right now for CHF1,790.00 (about €1,890 / $2,000 USD).