Amit Goffer
Israeli inventor and entrepreneur
Amit Goffer (Hebrew: עמית גופר) was an inventor and serial entrepreneur and is regarded as one of the pioneers of the exoskeleton industry.2
From Wikipedia’s article on Amit Goffer (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
About
He is the chief technology officer and president of UPnRIDE Robotics Ltd. 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. He was the founder of Odin Medical which provides MRIs in real time. From 2001 to 2012 he was CEO, and then from 2012 to 2015 the President and CTO of the company he founded, ReWalk. Unable to walk after an accident, he created the ReWalk system which is the first commercially available exoskeleton in the US. There are approximately 400 users as of 2019 including US military veterans. Goffer was awarded an honorary doctorate from Drexel University in 2004.
From Wikipedia’s article on Amit Goffer, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
- ReWalk RoboticsFounder7
Early life and education
- Date not recordedDrexel University3
Career
Occupation: businessperson.5
- Date not recordedFounded ReWalk Robotics4
Personal life
- CitizenshipIsrael6
Links
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataAmit Goffer on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaAmit Goffer on Wikipedia
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7WikidataReWalk Robotics, Founder