Trexo Robotics is a startup company founded by U of T students Manmeet Maggu and Rahul Udasi. Trexo Robotics joined the inaugural cohort of Hatchery LaunchLab,a new program in U of T Engineering’s Entrepreneurship Hatchery accelerator that provides support and funding to enable follow-on investment for engineering research-based startups. Trexo is also a recent graduate of Rotman’s Creative Destruction Lab,the Department of Computer Science Innovation Lab,and a member of the Faculty of Medicine’s Health Innovation Hub (H2i). Pictured: U of T students and Trexo Robotics co-founders Manmeet Maggu (right) and Rahul Udasi built a robotic exoskeleton for children after Maggu’s nephew was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Originally published in the June 19,2017 U of T News article: #UofTGrad17: How a U of T startup is helping disabled children walk like ‘Iron Man’
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Boy with child-sized wearable walking device is guided by researcher.

This is the place to help kids walk 

A small boy wearing Trexo Robotics assistive technology smiles as a helper shows him a tablet display University of Toronto startup Trexo Robotics is designing innovative assistive technology that supports…

Trexo Robotics

This is the place to expand the internet into space 

U of T startup Kepler Communications’ tiny internet satellites are helping scientists share field data. The more field data that scientists analyze from around the world, the better we’ll be…

Kepler Communications
Ali Punjani sits at a computer with drug sequencing on display.

This is the place to speed up drug discovery 

University of Toronto startup Structura Biotechnology builds novel software for cryo-electron microscopy which aims to help scientists understand the structure and function of protein molecules. “Every biological process that happens…

Structura Biotechnology

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