Four-year-old Luz d’Luna Caro Quinteros-Pitts had only known life in a wheelchair until last summer, when her mom brought home a robotic gait-training device called Trexo.

The AP-HP Henri-Mondor University Hospital Group chose Atalante to relieve its medical staff and rehabilitation services, which were severely strained during the peak of the COVID-19 epidemic, while optimising the walking rehabilitation treatments offered to its patients.

The robot of the year awards aim to encourage, select and support the development of the most promising innovations in artificial intelligence and robotics, designed for the benefit of human society and aligned with ethical criteria well defined in a number of key industrial sectors.