Built for real bodies: German Bionic Expands Exia with New Vest Designs Specifically for Women

Berlin, December 29, 2025 – German Bionic is expanding its Exia exoskeleton with new vest designs specifically engineered around female physiology, further improving comfort, ergonomics, and long-term wearability in physically demanding jobs. The development reflects German Bionic’s core principle that equipment must adapt to the people who use it – not the other way around – ensuring that wearable robotics support a wider range of body types and users from the outset.

Powered by Augmented AI trained on billions of real-world motion data points, the Exia robotic exosuit adapts dynamically to individual movements, loads, and working contexts, delivering precisely targeted physical assistance across diverse tasks. The new vest designs optimised for female physiology extend this adaptive principle to the physical interface between human and machine, ensuring that Exia’s powerful robotic support is matched by a fit and load distribution tailored precisely to the wearer’s body.

As the company’s female technology leader driving product and engineering development at German Bionic, Norma Steller, Head of Development, emphasized: “Comfort and fit determine whether technology is truly adopted in everyday work. By expanding our vest designs with solutions engineered around female physiology, we are addressing a very real requirement – in industrial environments where women remain underrepresented, and in nursing care, where women carry a large share of the physical workload. Together with Exia, these new vest designs underline our leadership in Physical AI and human augmentation – technology that works with people, not against them.”

German Bionic is the only exoskeleton manufacturer to rely on a fully developed vest system rather than simple straps or belt-based systems. While strap- or belt-based approaches concentrate forces on limited contact points, German Bionic’s vest system distributes loads evenly across the upper body, resulting in significantly higher comfort and effectiveness over extended periods of use – a decisive factor for deployment across full work shifts and sustained acceptance in real working environments.

Conceived for shared device use, Exia allows each wearer to have their own personal vest. The newly introduced vest designs tailored to female users expand the existing Exia vest portfolio and help lower physical barriers to entry for demanding roles – from industrial environments such as logistics and construction to nursing and care, where many exoskeleton users are women. This supports broader adoption and makes physically demanding jobs more accessible and appealing amid demographic change and persistent labor shortages.

Exia delivers powerful assistance, including up to 38 kg (84 lbs.) of dynamic lift support per movement, support when lowering and carrying loads, and integrated walking assistance. As a fully connected exoskeleton, Exia continuously captures usage data, enabling ongoing optimization through OTA software updates and insights via the German Bionic IO data insights platform.

The new vest designs will be showcased publicly for the first time at CES 2026 in Las Vegas (January 6–9, 2026). Visitors can experience Exia, including the new vest options, at the German Pavilion, hosted by the German Federal Government, Hall A – Stand 51242-18.