HUG

Misaki Senomiya models the HUG-06 Karuma model in an Exoskeleton advertisement.

The HUG, AKA "Helpful Unlimited Gear", is a power assisted suit designed for mobility assistance that was released by the Exoskeleton company. The exoskeleton suit attaches to the arms and legs of the human body in order to assist walking. Thanks to the robot boom that began in the late 2010s, the product has gained an extremely strong reputation worldwide.HUGs are supplied not just for nursing and welfare purposes, but for the military, public security, and other similar fields where HUG usage proves beneficial. The use of graphene–an advanced new material whose discoverer won the Nobel Prize in 2010–makes the device significantly lighter and far more durable, yet the material is quite inexpensive, allowing the price of HUGs to remain surprisingly low. This in turn allows for the device to be fairly accessible to the general public, which is the large reason it became such a huge success.

By 2015, over one million HUG units had been sold, and that number was increased to an astonishing three million sold in 2018.