2010 - 2016
In 2010, Nicolas Simon was chairman of the robotics club at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. Having very close relatives with walk impairment, he started working on one of the Holy Grails of robotics: how to get a biped robot to walk like a human, in a self-stabilized manner. At the time, and still today, only a handful of walking robots are capable of realistic humanoid walk - and all are expensive, one-of-a-kind prototypes.

Nicolas designed the first concept for a real-life exoskeleton that would truly walk. He founded Wandercraft in 2012 with two classmate roboticists, Alexandre Boulanger, soon joined by Matthieu Masselin, now Wandercraft’s CEO. They were assisted by a serial entrepreneur and father of a walking impaired boy, Jean-Louis Constanza, who joined the operating team a few years later.

The founders gradually gathered a team of scientists and engineers around one mission: leveraging state of the art dynamic walk robotics to help walking impaired people regain mobility. Step by step, the WanderTeam integrated robotic dynamic walk algorithms into a lower limb exoskeleton capable of emulating human self-balanced walk.

2017 - Today
In 2017, we conducted world premiere clinical trials with the first protoypes of the exo, showing that paraplegic persons could walk hands-free, without crutches.

The proof of concept device evolved into Atalante, our first commercial exoskeleton, that was CE marked in 2019. Atalante is used today in a rapidly growing number of European rehabilitation hospitals and helps stroke or SCI patients in gait re-learning.

We are working hard on expanding outside Europe. Research exoskeletons have already been sold in the US and FDA submission is planned for 2021.

Exoskeletons Simplify Gait Training