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Tianjin University shows a 3-gram EEG interface that hides in hair
A Tianjin University lab unveiled a 3-gram, 2 cm³ non-invasive brain-computer interface that packs electrodes, battery and radio into one cube worn in the hair.
Legato puts its hearing glasses on sale from $999
Legato Frames, eyeglasses with speech-separating hearing assistance in the temple arms, went on sale in the US on 1 October 2026 in three styles.
Neurable One headphones carry 12 EEG sensors for $499
Neurable launched over-ear headphones with dry EEG in the ear pads that track focus, fatigue and a brain-age estimate, on sale in the US.
Wandercraft acquires Ekso Bionics and its exoskeleton line
The deal puts four medical exoskeletons, Atalante X, EksoNR, Eve and Indego Personal, under one owner; terms were not disclosed.
A wrist sensor tracks arm recovery after stroke
UMass Amherst paired a wrist accelerometer with machine learning to follow arm impairment after stroke, 40 to 50% more accurately than clinician scores.
A magnetic therapy headset improves long COVID cognition in a pilot
In a 30-person sham-controlled trial at Mount Sinai, at-home sessions improved working memory, processing speed and mood, with gains lasting to week eight.
A soft TUM exosuit helps adults aged 69 to 85 stand and walk
In a Nature Communications feasibility study, ten older adults did about two more sit-to-stand cycles a minute and walked at 14% lower metabolic cost on average.
Georgia Tech implants talk to each other through body tissue
SWANS uses the body's ionic conductivity to link injectable implants under 3 mm with wearables. In rats, a paw sensor triggered stimulation of a hind-leg muscle.
Embry-Riddle wins NIH grant for a self-adjusting hip exoskeleton
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University said on 28 September 2026 that a $523,000 NIH grant will fund a personalized hip exoskeleton that adapts its assistance without manual control.
ULS Robotics launches a 2.58 kg exoskeleton for hikers
ULS Robotics released the Viatrix X on 22 September 2026, as Chinese scenic sites from the Great Wall to Mount Tai rent walking-assist exoskeletons for 80 to 200 yuan.
A powered exoskeleton walks an exhausted hiker down Table Mountain
Wilderness Search and Rescue fitted a Hypershell exoskeleton to a 47-year-old hiker on Platteklip Gorge, the first rescue use of an exoskeleton in South Africa.
A printed zirconia textile cools its wearer and harvests motion power
A University of Illinois fabric reflects 96% of sunlight, stays 3-6 °C below ambient air and turns body motion into electrical signals that can trigger heating.
Meta's AI glasses get FDA-cleared hearing aid software at $149.99
Hearing Enhancement, announced at Meta Connect on 23 September 2026, turns supported Meta glasses into an over-the-counter aid for mild to moderate hearing loss.
A contact lens reads serotonin in tears to track stress
Terasaki Institute researchers built a soft lens that detects serotonin at picomolar levels and followed it through stress tasks in 10 volunteers.
Meta's first camera-free Ray-Ban glasses go on pre-order at $349
Ray-Ban Meta Audio drops the camera for hands-free audio and voice AI in a 43-gram frame with 12 hours of battery. Shipping starts on 13 October 2026.
Coway opens bookings for a 1.6 kg walking-assist robot
Coway and WIRobotics will rent a waist-worn walking-assist wearable in Korea from October 2026; pre-consultation bookings opened on 22 September.
Eve goes on sale, the first self-balancing personal exoskeleton
Wandercraft opened US sales of Eve on 17 September 2026, five weeks after FDA clearance, with Medicare, VA and workers-compensation pathways already in place.
Japan enters the HAL-3 exoskeleton into its technology heritage
Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science registered the 2001 HAL-3 powered suit among 13 new Important Science and Technology Historical Materials.
A home exoskeleton study looks past walking to daily tasks
Twelve people with chronic spinal cord injury used a ReWalk exoskeleton at home; all twelve completed kitchen tasks standing, and most reported less pain than in a wheelchair.
An at-home brain stimulation headset goes on sale in the US
Flow Neuroscience began selling the FL-100 in the United States in September 2026, the first at-home brain stimulation device the FDA has approved for depression.
Apple Watch Series 12 reads heart rate every five seconds
New optical and electrical heart sensors announced on 9 September 2026 sample heart rate every five seconds and heart rate variability 24 times more often than before.
An at-home EEG headset held up through eight months in ALS
Twenty-eight people used a 16-channel dry-sensor EEG headset at home every two weeks for eight months, and the ALS group rated it 89 on the System Usability Scale.
Apple bought a startup that reads the brain magnetically
An EU acquisition notice published on 8 September 2026 revealed Apple's purchase of Sonera, whose chip-scale magnetometers sense brain and muscle activity without touching skin.
WeChat Pay opens QR-code payments to smart glasses
WeChat Pay released a smart-glasses SDK on 8 September 2026 with a RMB 200 daily cap, and Rokid became the first device to complete adaptation.
Atlas opens preorders for a $499 everyday EEG wearable
The Atlas 1.0 combines EEG with motion, skin conductance and voice vibration sensing to track three daily states, at $499 plus a $29.99 monthly membership.
Hypershell opens orders for a full-leg exoskeleton
The Halo powers hips and knees together at 1,490 W in a 2.6 kg frame, with the first 200 units at $2,299 and deliveries starting in November 2026.
Oura files to list on Nasdaq
The smart-ring maker's S-1 discloses $1.21 billion of revenue for the nine months to 30 June 2026, 74% growth, and 5.0 million paid members.
An Indian stroke-rehab exoskeleton heads to Australian trials
RoboExo SMART, developed at IIT Delhi and tested in more than sixty patients at AIIMS, is moving to clinical trials in Australia through a partnership with Proxmed.
Five days in an exoskeleton leaves a lasting mark on how people move
A 24-participant study found that low-magnitude force fields from an upper-limb exoskeleton changed shoulder-elbow coordination in ways that outlasted the sessions.
Stryker runs its first hip arthroscopy through an Apple Vision Pro
SportSuite Vision holds FDA De Novo authorization granted 17 July 2026, and has now been used in a live hip arthroscopy at Duke Health.
Shenzhen BCI startup Shenyi raises an angel round for sleep and mood
Shenyi Technology closed over 10 million yuan led by a Guangming district fund, for non-invasive brain-computer interfaces aimed at sleep disorders and depression.
A 14-day heart patch after fainting doubled arrhythmia detection
In 2,234 UK emergency patients, immediate monitoring found arrhythmias in 22 percent against 9 percent on standard care, and one-year mortality was 1.5 against 2.9 percent.
Meta stops its glasses recording when the privacy light is covered
A software update disables the camera mid-recording if the capture LED is obscured, closing a loophole that let wearers keep filming with the light hidden.
Legato leaves stealth with $12M and hearing aids built into frames
Two former Bose leaders put speech-separating hearing assistance in the arms of ordinary eyeglasses, with a launch set for autumn 2026.
FDA authorises the first wearable that reads ketones continuously
Abbott's Libre Duo 10 Day cleared De Novo review on 25 August 2026, measuring glucose and ketones every minute in people aged 2 and over.
A biological age score arrives as a $29 add-on at 2,000 US labs
Humanity Biological Age went live on questhealth.com on 25 August 2026, converting an existing Quest blood panel into a single age number without a second draw.
A wearable patch taps out which hazard it has just detected
NC State's solar-assisted patch senses six environmental hazards and tells the wearer which one through a distinct vibration pattern for each.
The FDA clears Samsung Galaxy Buds to work as hearing aids
Galaxy Buds3 Pro and Buds4 Pro get over-the-counter hearing-aid clearance for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss, shipping in Q4 2026.
A Welsh village clinic gives a walking robot its UK debut
Trexo Robotics brought its motorised pediatric exoskeleton to Equinox Physiotherapy in Cross Hands on 13 August 2026, its first appearance in the UK.
A sweat patch tracks cholesterol without drawing blood
Caltech's Wei Gao lab reported a stick-on sensor that reads cholesterol and triglycerides from sweat, holding its triglyceride measurement for more than 20 hours.
The FDA clears a self-balancing exoskeleton for use at home
Wandercraft's Eve is cleared for eligible wheelchair users with spinal cord injuries at any level, with a US commercial launch set for 17 September 2026.
Angel Robotics registers its walking exosuit in Vietnam
The Angel Suit H10 cleared Vietnam's Class B medical-device declaration on 5 August 2026, the Korean maker's second overseas registration for the device.
A modular hip exoskeleton goes on direct sale at $1,499
Ascentiz began selling its H Series hip exoskeleton on 6 August 2026, claiming up to a 35% cut in the work of walking and up to 50 km of assisted range.
A motor-free exosuit cuts the energy cost of walking by 13.9%
A hip exosuit driven entirely by dielectric elastomer artificial muscles, with no motors and no pneumatics, lowered metabolic cost in a treadmill test.
A stretchable transistor switches between logic and synapse with salt
A Pusan National University team built one soft device that runs digital logic at high salt concentration and behaves like a synapse at low, and shows its state by changing colour.