RoboCT begins making its 2.3 kg GoGo exoskeleton in Wuxi

A steep station exit, the last flights to a walk-up apartment, the slow walk home after a long day. For someone recovering from a stroke, living with a spinal injury or losing confidence in their balance, those few steps can become a calculation. Hangzhou-based RoboCT has now started producing a device aimed at that gap: GoGo, a walking and outdoor exoskeleton, built at a new facility in Wuxi by July 2026. It is battery-free, weighs about 2.3 kilograms and uses a hip-mounted motor.

RoboCT is not new to the field. Founded in 2017, it began with lower-limb rehabilitation, and its technology stack spans motors, reducers, joint modules, sensors and control algorithms. It was an early entrant into China's NMPA-regulated rehabilitation-device market, where a device must be cleared before it reaches patients. Clinical exoskeletons must also fit each patient and work within therapist-led training, which is why clearance alone does not prove better outcomes. In March 2026 the company raised more than RMB 100 million in a Series B+ round led by ABC Capital, its second financing round within a year. The money is meant to support consumer products, new brain-computer-interface registrations and channel building.

The wider market is moving the same way. IDC's 2026 report estimates China's 2025 exoskeleton market at more than RMB 1.6 billion and roughly 26,000 units. Medical rehabilitation leads by value, but consumer-assistance devices account for over 70% of shipments, a sign that the category is moving from specialist medical equipment toward wearable tools for ordinary use. GoGo sits on that side of the line. Its brief is different from a hospital system: it has to be light, easy to put on and dependable without a clinician nearby.

For buyers who need help walking outside, the practical gain depends on things the sources do not yet settle. The Wuxi lines can each make roughly 150 units, which is a production capacity, not a sales forecast, and the sources give no GoGo price and no shipping date. Comfort, training, after-sales support and price will decide whether a device becomes a daily habit or a novelty, as the company itself has to prove. Overseas, RoboCT's exoskeletons had reached Japan, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates by 2025. Its Ascentiz consumer brand tested direct sales through a Kickstarter campaign that drew 2,301 backers and more than HK$20.6 million in pledges. Each market, though, needs its own registration, distribution and service, and those pledges have yet to turn into sustained use.