Amit Goffer

Amit Goffer is an inventor and serial entrepreneur and is regarded as one of the pioneers of the exoskeleton industry.[1] He is the chief technology officer and president of UPnRIDE Robotics Ltd.[2] He received his B.Sc. from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, his M.Sc. from Tel-Aviv University and his Ph.D. from Drexel University in electrical and computer engineering where his advisor was Moshe Kam.[3] He was the founder of Odin Medical which provides MRIs in real time. From 2001-2012 he was CEO, and then from 2012-2015 the President and CTO of the company he founded, ReWalk.[4][1] Confined to a wheelchair after an accident, he created the ReWalk system which is the first commercially available exoskeleton in the US.[3] There are approximately 400 users as of 2019 including US military veterans.[5]. Goffer was awarded an honorary doctorate from Drexel University in 2004.[6]

References
  1. Pransky, Joanne (2018-03-19). "Dr Amit Goffer, co-founder at UPnRIDE, serial inventor and entrepreneur". Industrial Robot: The International Journal of Robotics Research and Application. 45 (2): 175–180. doi:10.1108/IR-01-2018-0009. ISSN 0143-991X.
  2. Solomon, Shoshanna. "UPnRIDE aims to help wheelchair users stand tall". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  3. "Essential Interview: Exoskeleton Inventor, UPnRIDE Founder Amit Goffer". Robotics Business Review. 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  4. "Bloomberg - Are you a robot?". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  5. EST, Avi Jorisch On 3/6/18 at 8:00 AM (2018-03-06). "How a paralyzed man reinvented the wheelchair to help people walk again". Newsweek. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  6. "Drexel Announces 2014 Honorary Degree Recipients". Drexel University. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
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