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Behind the services and products offered by InteX, is a consortium championed by a partnership between Research & Technology Organisations (RTOs) CTAG and TECNALIA, who are the main technology providers and business owners.
Nevertheless, they are supported by exoskeleton designer IUVO who identified user needs, by physiologists from ULB who defined indicators of good exoskeleton performance and COMAU who prepared the educational and training material, aimed to train potential operators of exoskeletons as also ACCIONA Construction whose support guaranteed innovative results from the development of new technologies, allowing know all the time the industrial needs during the definition of requirements and validation of results.
TECNALIA
TECNALIA Research & Innovation is the largest private R+D+i entity in Spain and 5th in Europe, with a staff of over 1407 employees (248 PhDs), and an income of 110M€ in 2018.
TECNALIA is committed to generate major impacts in economic terms, by means of innovation and technological development, addressed by 6 business divisions covering the economic sectors of Building Technologies, Energy and Environment, ICT, Industry and Transport, Lab Services and Health.
The main activities of the Medical Robotics department, within the Health division of TECNALIA, are to investigate, innovate and develop new technologies for ageing, disabilities and worker protection. One of its focus is Wearable Robotics: smart exoskeletons and prostheses to restore mobility and functionality in upper and lower limbs and industrial exoskeletons for improving worker health.
TECNALIA is one of the business co-owner, along with CTAG, and will carry out the services that the InteX company provides.
CTAG- Automative Technology Center of Galicia
CTAG is a Spanish, private, non-profit R&D Technology Centre whose technologies comprise 36.000 square meters of dedicated high-tech laboratories, HW&SW development facilities and a prototype line among others.
With a go-to market strategy, CTAG is an ideal partner for developing new innovative products and offering high-tech services to the industry.
CTAG mainly focuses on the automotive and mobility sectors, but it can also carry out transversal projects in aggro-food, aerospace, shipping, etc.
CTAG is the other business co-owner, along with TECNALIA and will carry out the services that the InteX company provides.
COMAU
COMAU is a leading company in the industrial automation field at a global level.
Combining innovative engineering solutions with easy to use, open automation and enabling technologies, COMAU helps companies of all sizes – and across a wide range of industrial segments – leverage the full potential of digital manufacturing.
COMAU’s competency stems from over 45 years of field proven-experience and a strong presence within every major industrial country. COMAU develops Industry 4.0-enabled systems, products and services. The full portfolio includes joining, assembly and machining solutions for traditional and electric vehicles, robotized manufacturing systems, a complete family of robots (including collaborative and wearable robotics), autonomous logistics, and asset optimization services with real-time monitoring and control capabilities. The offering also extends to project management and consultancy, IoT services, and maintenance and training for a wide range of industrial segments. Its solutions support vehicle manufacturing, heavy industry, railway, renewable energy, and a wide variety of general industries.
IUVO SLR
IUVO is currently a leading company in the development and experimentation of wearable robots for different market segments, including occupational exoskeletons for mitigating ergonomics risks in manufacturing processes.
IUVO has co-developed together with COMAU the exoskeletons MATE and MATE-xt, available on the market. An active pelvis orthosis for the gait support of patients is under development in collaboration with Össur.
IUVO has also an extensive experience in European projects, being currently partner of several EU H2020 projects
ACCIONA
ACCIONA Construcción is a leading European construction company designing, constructing and managing buildings and civil infrastructures under sustainability principles.
It has an international presence in more than 30 countries and a total turnover of 7254 M€ (2017), employing more than 9,000 people.
ACCIONA has its own R&D Technological Centre composed by a multidisciplinary and international team of more than 80 highly qualified researchers from a wide range of disciplines. Main research areas are Materials (Cement & Concrete, Nano & Advanced materials, Roads, Environmental technologies), Efficient Construction (ICT, BIM Energy efficiency) and Infrastructure (Design, Composites, Underground, Maritime works and Industrial).
At European level, ACCIONA plays an active role in the European Construction Technology Platform being part of its Presidium, leading the Energy Efficient Buildings Committee and taking a leading role as a member of the EeB cPPP Partnership Board with the EC.
UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES
The Université Libre de Bruxelles founded in 1834, ULB has a long tradition of excellence in Research with four scientific Nobel Prizes, two Nobel Peace Prizes, one Fields Medal, three Wolf Prizes and two Marie Curie Excellence Awards.
The Osteopathic Sciences Research Unit (URSO for French name) and the Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Laboratory (CPEL) are two research units included in the Motor Sciences Laboratory at the Faculty of Motor Sciences (www.ulb.be/facs/fsm).
URSO brings expertise in the fields of sensorimotor system physiology and musculoskeletal system biomechanics. In this project URSO brings expertise in the analyses of balance and limbs function physiology through the recording of electromyography and 3D kinematic. We also bring know-how in the extraction of health and pathological muscular synergies that may lead to neuromuscular injury.
The CPEL investigates better understanding of cardiac limitations, including ventricular function, the pulmonary and systemic vascular resistance and oxygen transport adaptation during exercise, including gender-, age- and ethnical-influences, obesity and diabetes. In the present project we bring our expertise in the analyses of respiratory and cardio-vascular signals during exercise to elaborate measurable extra-physiologic or pathological prodromes of faintness or cardio-vascular events.