Machines that move the way humans move.
Iapyx Labs drives the commercialization of humanoid robots, exoskeletons, and prosthetics — steering the technology toward outcomes that genuinely help people, at home and in the world.
Make humanoid robots, exoskeletons, and prosthetics accessible to everyone.
This technology already changes lives when it reaches the people who need it — and the hardware overlaps more than people realize: a humanoid robot’s hand and a prosthetic hand solve much of the same problem.
Exoskeletons
- Helping people with spinal cord injuries walk again
- Supporting stroke and injury rehabilitation
- Reducing physical strain for workers doing repetitive labor
Ekso Bionics’ EksoNR. Photo: AriceEB, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Humanoid robots
- Assisting elderly or disabled people with everyday household tasks
- Providing companionship for people who live alone
- Taking on dangerous or physically demanding work
Halodi Robotics’ collaborative humanoid — Halodi later became 1X Technologies. Photo: Nicholas-halodi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Prosthetics
- Restoring grip and dexterity after limb loss
- Sharing the same hands, actuators, and control software as humanoid robots
- Getting cheaper and more capable as that shared hardware scales
The i-LIMB, an early bionic hand. Photo: Danie Ware, CC BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons.
Our mission is to make sure this technology reaches everyone — not just the people who can afford it first.
The Astro line: dev kits and control software for humanoid robots, exoskeletons, and prosthetics.
Before you commit to a full deployment, you need hardware to prototype on and software to run it. The Astro line is both — dev kits you can start building on now, and the control software to run them.
Hardware
Astro Boy
A compact humanoid platform for prototyping manipulation, locomotion, and control software before committing to a full-scale build.
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A modular exoskeleton platform for testing assistive and rehabilitative control strategies on real hardware.
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A research-grade prosthetic dev platform for testing control algorithms and hardware integrations before they reach a patient.
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MovePilot
Full-body control for humanoid robots and exoskeletons — arms, head, locomotion — standardized flight-controller-style software for bodies instead of aircraft.
Movement Planner
Configure, test, and plan how your system behaves — the ground-station counterpart to MovePilot, for setting up and monitoring hardware instead of flying it blind.
Consulting, sales, service, and integration for humanoid robots, exoskeletons, and prosthetics.
We work with general-purpose humanoid robots, exoskeletons, and prosthetics across the application scenarios they’re actually built for — helping partners move from an interesting platform to a system that works in a home, a care setting, a warehouse, or a field environment.
That’s end-to-end: choosing the right platform for the job, secondary integration and development to adapt general-purpose hardware to a specific use case, ongoing service once it’s deployed, and the supplier and OEM relationships that make any of that possible.
Consulting
Platform selection and deployment planning, matched to the environment a robot, exoskeleton, or prosthetic actually has to work in.
Sales
Sourcing the right humanoid, exoskeleton, or prosthetic platform for a deployment, informed by the OEM and supplier landscape we track at Iapyx Research.
Service
Ongoing support once a system is in the field, not just at handoff.
Secondary development & integration
Adapting general-purpose hardware — software, mounts, workflows — to the job in front of it.
Why partners work with us.
We track this industry before we integrate into it.
research.iapyxlabs.com is our research arm — a structured, cross-linked directory of the humanoid and exoskeleton industry, currently tracking 86 OEMs, 99 suppliers across the supply chain, and 66 of the investors funding them. It’s how we stay ahead of who’s building what, and it’s open for anyone doing the same homework.
Explore Iapyx Research →World-class engineering, drawn from aerospace and biotech.
Our integration work draws on engineers from autonomous systems, aerospace, and biotech — disciplines built around getting complex physical systems to work safely in the real world, not just in a demo.
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Our network of creators has generated more than 2.5M views across YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram in the consumer electronics and fitness niches — audiences that already care about the products we’re bringing to market.
Born in a hospital room.
Iapyx Labs was born while our founder watched his father succumb to aggressive pancreatic cancer. In the grip of pre-emptive mourning, he realized that there is only one thing in this world that truly matters.
Family.
Iapyx Labs exists to make your life — and your family’s life — better. A robot that becomes a friend. That handles the chores. That helps you run with the kids. That gives you back and enhances the time you would spend with the people you love.
Iapyx, healer of the Aeneid.
Iapyx didn’t choose the sword. He chose the quieter art of medicine, and used it to heal Aeneas, taught by Apollo. Our founder picked the name on purpose, already knowing both halves of the reference: before Iapyx Labs, he worked on a high-altitude aircraft program called Apollo, at a company called Icarus — and in the myth, Iapyx is Icarus’s brother, taught the art of healing by Apollo himself. What he didn’t know yet was that his father would die. That part wasn’t the plan.
Our founder has spent his life studying how bodies move — as a competitive gymnast who broke 10 bones, dislocated a shoulder 19 times, and went through 3 surgeries along the way, so he knows what it feels like when your own body feels broken — then coaching more than 150 students — and studying how complex systems get built safely, as a bioengineer and aerospace engineer. Iapyx Labs is where those two threads meet.
“My dad worked his whole life and never got the chance to retire. He’s my inspiration, and this company is my way of keeping his hard work and memory alive. It combines everything I’ve built toward — bioengineering, aerospace, robotics — into advancing the commercialization of humanoid robots, exoskeletons, and prosthetics.”
— Michael Joseph, founder
Michael Joseph
Founder
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- Bioengineer & aerospace engineer
- Virginia State Champion gymnast
- 150+ students coached
- 13+ sports trained
- 3 companies built from zero
Let’s give people back their time.
If you care about movement, family, and machines that genuinely help — we would love to hear from you.