SBIR/STTR Research Award
Powered Knee Exoskeleton for Airfield Operations
Award amount
$1,799,987Program and phase
SBIR · Phase II – Direct to Phase IIAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Roam Robotics, Inc
- Proposal award date
- 2024-12-01
- Contract end date
- 2026-03-01
- UEI
- M8CTPNZJLNW7
- Solicitation number
- 24.2
- Topic code
- AF242-D003
Research abstract
The future strategic objectives of the Air Force will continue to ask operators to complete more actions with smaller and more agile teams. Exoskeletons have demonstrated the potential to expand the capabilities and extend the health of airmen in previous work, however, little work has been done to validate the capabilities of systems in use. This proposal seeks to change that. This proposal will use the existing Forge platform as a foundation to pilot its use across various Air Force Service Codes (AFSC), develop and validate test protocol to assess the systems longitudinally and cross-sectionally in those use cases, and complete the most promising of those assessments.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Active Knee Assistance Device For Lower Limb Injury
- Dynamic Pneumatic Neck Support for Fixed Wing Pilots
- Exoskeleton for Augmented Contingency Operations
- Active Knee Assistance Device For Lower Limb Injury
- Untethered LowerBody Actuated Exoskeleton Motion Prediction and Sensing
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
6 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2018–2025). Reported award amounts total $7,336,400. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II – Direct to Phase II, Phase II, Phase I
Agencies: Department of Defense