Exoskeleton Company

Exoskeleton Development Co., Ltd. ("ExCo" for short) is a fictional company in the world of Robotics;Notes. During the series, they are most well known for their HUG power-assisted suits, which they invented and sell to the general public.

Exoskeleton Company is influenced, to some extent, by the Committee of 300. Kou Kimijima claims that the company is one of many being used by the Committee to develop robots during the robot boom as part of Project Mars.

History

Exoskeleton Company began as a small company, selling HUGs for medical care and rehabilitation purposes. In the late 2010s, however, the company began to focus their attention on the rapidly growing robot boom, and as a result, they quickly became a world famous, frequently-discussed company. In 2018, Exoskeleton Company was ranked the number one company that Japanese college students wanted to work for.

After their massive growth, the company began to produce HUGs for purposes outside of nursing and welfare. The "HUGP" line of HUGs, for example, was developed for and adopted by the the police departments of various countries. The company also had a top-secret military-use model in development, designed for adoption by the militaries of various countries.

In August 2020, it was reported that Exoskeleton Company would be scaling back the production of HUGs in the following year, likely due to the terrorism committed by one of the company's test pilots, Misaki Senomiya, using specialized HUG prototypes.

Known members

• Toshiyuki Sawada: Head of the HUG Testing Department at Exoskeleton Company. He is responsible for working with and maintaining the HUG test pilots. In truth, he is a double-agent working to thwart the Committee of 300, and he uses his position at the company to monitor its upper echelons.
• Misaki Senomiya: A HUG test pilot and the company's PR spokesperson. Thanks to her beauty and charm on Exoskeleton Company commercials, she has many online fans in-universe. Though she claimed to be Sawada's partner in his goal to thwart Project Atum, she betrayed him and used Exoskeleton Company's KAMINAGI and SUMERAGI HUG prototypes to commit acts of terrorism under Kimijima's brainwashing influence.
• Yukari Itotsuna: Mentioned in Side Phase: Maps, the Rain, and Macarons. A ten-year-old HUG test pilot at Exoskeleton Company. When she dons a HUG, her attitude becomes one of extreme arrogance.
• Jorui Yamaki: Mentioned in Side Phase: Maps, the Rain, and Macarons. A HUG test pilot at Exoskeleton Company.