AABLE Human Motion
Barcelona-based medical device startup founded in 2018 as a UPC spin-off, designing and manufacturing lightweight robotic exoskeletons for neurorehabilitation. Its ABLE Exoskeleton helps people with lower-limb paralysis (e.g. spinal cord injury) stand, walk, and train gait in clinical settings, has CE Marking (2024), and has supported over 500 patients through more than 2 million steps across hospitals in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK.
SectorsMedical devices, Robotics, Neurorehabilitation, Wearables
Start-up MapHealthtech & Bio › Medical devices & surgical hardware
Founders
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Alex Garcia
Co-founder & CTO
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Alfons Carnicero
Co-founder & CEO
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Josep M. Font
Co-founder (Professor, UPC)
Global models 5
WWandercraft
France · www.wandercraft.eu ↗
Builds self-balancing robotic exoskeletons for people with paralysis, used in both clinical rehab and personal mobility, the closest large-scale peer to ABLE's product category.
$150MComparable
SSarcos Robotics
United States · www.sarcos.com ↗
Developed powered exoskeleton suits (industrial/defense-focused rather than clinical rehab, but same wearable-robotics business model).
$96MComparable
EEkso Bionics
United States · eksobionics.com ↗
Makes wearable exoskeletons for medical rehabilitation of stroke and spinal cord injury patients, directly comparable to ABLE's clinical gait-training use case.
$70MComparable
GGerman Bionic
Germany · www.germanbionic.com ↗
Powered exoskeleton maker, though focused on industrial/workplace assistance rather than clinical rehabilitation.
$65MComparable
RReWalk Robotics
Israel · rewalk.com ↗
Pioneer of wearable robotic exoskeletons enabling people with spinal cord injury to walk, essentially the same clinical/personal-mobility exoskeleton model as ABLE.
$11MComparable
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Series B (estimated) · €16.3M
Notes: Most funded first
Investors 9
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SSabadell Venture Capital
www.bancsabadell.com
EESADE BAN
www.esadealumni.net/en/investors/about-esade-ban
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EIT Health
eithealth.eu
SShip2B Ventures
ship2bventures.com
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Peak Thomas
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Taidec Consult
GGrifols
MMassRobotics
RRiuaran
Funding rounds 1
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead |
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| 2019-10-31 | Seed | approximately €700K |
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News 8
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| 2025-11-25 |
The 2025 EIT Innovation Awards Winners Announced ↗
EIT (European Institute of Innovation & Technology)
2025-11-25 |
| 2025-11-04 |
The company ABLE Human Motion, supported by the PASS programme, incorporates 6 exoskeletons for neuromuscular rehabilitation into the Catalan healthcare system ↗
Biocat
2025-11-04 |
| 2025-10-02 |
La startup catalana que ayuda a pacientes con ictus a recuperar la movilidad con exoesqueletos ↗
Via Empresa
2025-10-02 |
| 2025-09-05 |
ABLE Human Motion ↗
Future Human
2025-09-05 |
| 2024-10-24 |
Interview Alfons Carnicero - CEO and Co-Founder of ABLE Human Motion ↗
Biotech Spain
2024-10-24 |
| 2024-10-02 |
Robots in medicine: The robotics start-ups making a difference in healthcare ↗
EIT Health
2024-10-02 |
| 2024-09-23 |
Un exoesqueleto robótico para volver a andar: la misión de una empresa barcelonesa ↗
El Español / Invertia
2024-09-23 |
| 2024-04-15 |
EIT Health-supported ABLE Human Motion receives CE mark ↗
EIT Health
2024-04-15 |