Pitch by the representative director of AssistMotion Minoru Hashimoto
Company Profile
- Startup Name: AssistMotion Inc.
- Stage: Early-stage / Seed (founded 2017, has raised approximately $736K–$980K in angel/seed funding)
- Location: Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan (Shinshu University Open Venture Innovation Center)
- Website: https://assistmotion.jp/
- Business Content: AssistMotion is a Shinshu University spin-off founded by Professor Minoru Hashimoto that develops wearable robotic devices for movement assistance and rehabilitation. Its flagship product is “curara,” a lightweight wearable exoskeleton designed to aid walking training for the elderly and people with physical disabilities, enabling rehabilitation outside hospitals and in everyday home settings. The company is also developing PVC Gel, a next-generation soft actuator material that deforms when voltage is applied, for future human-friendly robotics applications.
