The Field Journal
What's actually happening in exoskeletons
Independent reporting on the exoskeleton industry — product breakdowns, breakthrough analysis, and buyer guides for the people writing the checks.
The Exoskeleton Breakthroughs of 2026 That Will Change What You Can Buy Next Year
At a rehabilitation clinic in New York last November, a patient with cervical spinal cord injury at level C4 — meaning significant arm and leg paralysis — stood up and took steps. The device doing the work was Wandercraft's Atalante X, a self-balancing exoskeleton that had just received its second F
Buying an Exoskeleton for Your Parents? Here Are the Five Things That Actually Matter
Your mother has been cutting her morning walks shorter. The hips are fine, the cardiologist is satisfied, but something in the gait has changed — she's slower, more hesitant on steps, quicker to sit down. It's not a medical emergency. It's the particular, frustrating physics of aging muscle.
Exoskeleton Applications: Where the Robot Suit Quietly Took Over
Picture a 1965 General Electric engineer strapped into a 1,500-pound hydraulic hulk that could theoretically lift a small car — but couldn't, because the control system lagged half a second behind the human nervous system. That was the Hardiman, GE's cybernetic dream that became the exoskeleton worl