Company · Healthtech & Bio

ABLE Human Motion

ablehumanmotion.com ↗ ·Barcelona ·Seed

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.

Founded

2018

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News

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SectorsMedical devices, Robotics, Neurorehabilitation, Wearables Start-up MapHealthtech & Bio › Medical devices & surgical hardware

Profile updated 20 Jul 2026

Founders

Alex Garcia

Co-founder & CTO

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Alfons Carnicero

Co-founder & CEO

Josep M. Font

Co-founder (Professor, UPC)

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Global models 5

Wandercraft

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

Sarcos Robotics

United States · www.sarcos.com ↗

Developed powered exoskeleton suits (industrial/defense-focused rather than clinical rehab, but same wearable-robotics business model).

$96MComparable

Ekso 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

German Bionic

Germany · www.germanbionic.com ↗

Powered exoskeleton maker, though focused on industrial/workplace assistance rather than clinical rehabilitation.

$65MComparable

ReWalk 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

Investors 7

Banco Sabadell (BStartup)

www.bancsabadell.com ↗

Investor Spain

EIT Health

eithealth.eu ↗

Investor Germany

ESADE BAN

www.esadealumni.net/en/investors/about-esade-ban ↗

Investor Spain

Grifols

www.grifols.com ↗

Investor Spain

MassRobotics

www.massrobotics.org ↗

Investor United States

Riuaran

Investor Spain

Funding rounds

No announced rounds on record.

News & media 8

Published	Article
2025-11-25	The 2025 EIT Innovation Awards Winners Announced ↗ EIT (European Institute of Innovation & Technology)
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
2025-10-02	La startup catalana que ayuda a pacientes con ictus a recuperar la movilidad con exoesqueletos ↗ Via Empresa
2025-09-05	ABLE Human Motion ↗ Future Human
2024-10-24	Interview Alfons Carnicero - CEO and Co-Founder of ABLE Human Motion ↗ Biotech Spain
2024-10-02	Robots in medicine: The robotics start-ups making a difference in healthcare ↗ EIT Health
2024-09-23	Un exoesqueleto robótico para volver a andar: la misión de una empresa barcelonesa ↗ El Español / Invertia
2024-04-15	EIT Health-supported ABLE Human Motion receives CE mark ↗ EIT Health