Superflex to Introduce Powered Clothing: Apparel to Enhance Strength,
  Mobility, and Core Wellness
From: BusinessWire - 12/20/2016

Superflex, a powered clothing company spun out of SRI International, has
hired a team of leaders in textiles, industrial design, robotics,
biomechanics, and data science to develop the new category of Powered
Clothing: lightweight, connected apparel, comfortably worn under any outfit,
with integrated electric “muscles” that add intelligent wearable strength and
natural mobility to muscles and joints, enabling everyone - from seniors to
athletes to people with a wide range of physical disabilities - to achieve
their full physical potential.

While the potential applications of powered clothing are broad - from sports
and recreation to apparel and healthcare - the company is initially focusing
on the aging market because of its size and need. This is reinforced by the
fact that more than one-third of seniors have a mobility limitation and most
tech purchases are made by those over 45.

Read the entire press release at:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161220005325/en/Superflex-Raises-9.6MM-Introduce-Powered-Clothing-Apparel

Links:
Superflex’s robot suit is meant to help mobilize aging populations
http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/20/14009890/superflex-robot-power-suit-aging-elderly-senior-citizens-mobility

SRI International spins off robotics project as Superflex, aiming at human
  augmentation
https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/21/sri-international-spins-off-robotics-project-as-superflex-aiming-at-human-augmentation

‘Powered Clothing’ Is the Goal of Superflex Exoskeleton Funding
https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/powered-clothing-goal-superflex-exoskeleton-funding

Submitted by Drew Nelson