Clinical Decision-Making with Caplex®

Type of Customer

Government, Healthcare

Target Market

Healthcare

Sources of Funding

CDMRP OPORP

System Type

Full-sized Caplex System

Wearable Devices

PRO-002, PRO-003, EXO-010

Software

Caplex GUI, Caplex Controllers, in development mechanical characterization software

Introduction

Utilizing emulation to provide a means to rapidly test-drive enable evidence-based personalized prescriptions to optimize patient outcomes and justify reimbursement has been one of Humotech’s primary objectives since the company’s inception. Foundational research & development began at Carnegie Mellon University, and then was licensed to Humotech and further developed & evaluated by a variety of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD) research centers. This work started with emulating prosthetic feet test-drive strategies, with an emphasis on optimizing subjective patient satisfaction outcomes, and is now expanding in a variety of directions including the use of balance-related outcomes and emulation of ankle-foot orthoses, to name a few.

Phase 1

"A Prosthetic Foot Emulator to Optimize Prescription of Prosthetic Feet in Veterans and Service Members with Leg Amputations”

Lead by David Morgenroth at the VA Puget Sound, along with second and third study sites at the VA Minneapolis lead by Andrew Hansen and the Brook Army Medical Center lead by Lee Childers, and support related to subjective outcome measures from Brian Hafner.

Phase 2

"A Prosthetic Foot Test-Drive Strategy for Improving Stability and Falls-Related Outcomes in Veterans with Leg Amputations”

Lead by David Morgenroth at the VA Puget Sound, with a second study site at the VA Minneapolis lead by Sara Koehler, and support related to balance-related outcome measures from Andrew Sawers.

Phase 3

“Optimizing Ankle-Foot Orthotic Prescription Using an Emulation Test-Drive Strategy”

Lead by Brad Hendershot at Walter Reed, with a second study site at the VA Puget Sound lead by David Morgenroth.

Collaborators

Brooke Army Medical Center - Center for the Intrepid

UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine

Humotech Features

Informing Clinical Care with Data: Humotech’s Next Chapter

May 27, 2026

Humotech was founded at the intersection of biomechanics research, wearable robotics engineering, and a dream to advance human mobility. Since our earliest days, we have been focused on providing a platform to support rigorous, data-driven experiments that help us better understand how