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As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Wandercraft: 3 models, 2 deployments across 2 regions, $120.0M raised, 2 active incidents. 4 sources back the record.
CategoryExoskeletons
Appears inManufacturing robots
Overview
Wandercraft is a French robotics maker (founded 2012, Paris) that builds self-balancing walking machines. Its original line is medical: the Atalante X rehabilitation exoskeleton, FDA cleared in 2024 and deployed in 100+ rehab and research facilities, and Eve, the personal-use version cleared by the FDA in August 2026.
In 2025 the company applied the same dynamic-balance control stack to industry and built Calvin-40, a headless industrial humanoid, co-developed with Renault Group, which took a minority stake in June 2025 and is the first commercial customer.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- 2 incidents on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries D post-money
Key facts
Two product lines
Shared technology
Calvin-40 anchor customer
Company type
Data & sources
Web sources
4
4 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (3)
View all models →Current platform
Wandercraft Eve
Personal-use self-balancing walking exoskeleton from [Wandercraft](/companies/wandercraft), the take-home counterpart to the clinic-based [Atalante X](/models/wandercraft-atalante-x). Like Atalante it walks hands-free, without crutches, using AI-driven dynamic balance. The FDA cleared Eve in August 2026 for eligible adults with spinal cord injuries at any level, provided the user can operate the device's remote control, following a three-site clinical trial that met its functional and usability endpoints. Wandercraft set a US commercial launch for 17 September 2026.
Current platform
Calvin-40
Headless industrial humanoid from [Wandercraft](/companies/wandercraft), built on the self-balancing dynamic-gait control stack the company spent 12 years developing for medical exoskeletons. Wandercraft says the first unit was assembled in 40 days, which is where the name comes from. It has no head: perception is a waist-mounted RGBD camera, with inertial measurement units in each limb and force sensors under the feet, and it signals its state with LED lights rather than a face. Wandercraft and [Renault Group](/companies/renault-group) state a carrying capability of 40 to 50 kg, roughly double what Renault says conventional plant robots handle; the one task publicly described in service, two-tire handling at Renault's Douai plant, is reported at about 30 kg. Renault co-developed the robot and took a minority stake in June 2025. DEPLOY holds Calvin-40 at pilot: Renault describes the Douai unit as being tested, Wandercraft's own site puts first series delivery in H1 2027, and the fleet figures in circulation (10 by end 2026, 350 by end 2027, 12 signed customers) are roadmap and order commitments rather than units at work.
Current platform
Wandercraft Atalante X
Powered, self-balancing full-body lower-limb exoskeleton that walks HANDS-FREE (no crutches) using AI-driven dynamic balance across ~12 actuated degrees of freedom. The autonomy is real-time balance/gait control; clinician sets the session. FDA cleared early 2024, indications expanded 2025 (MS, C4-L5 SCI). Deployed in 100+ rehab/research facilities.
Partnerships
Every company Wandercraft has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA1× joint1116 total
- 2Renault Group1× joint1 total
Most recent
- Wandercraft x NVIDIA (Calvin-40 stack)2025-06-11with NVIDIAjust announced
- Renault Group x Wandercraft (Calvin-40)2025-06-07with Renault Groupoperating
Wandercraft on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Wandercraft's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Wandercraft deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (3)
- Michelle Valente Product Manager, Humanoid Robotics (Calvin)since 2025-09-01reported, not verified
- Matthieu Masselin CEO & Co-foundersince 2012-01-01secondary-verified
- Nicolas Simon Co-founder & Chairmansince 2012-01-01secondary-verified
Founders (4)
- Matthieu Masselincofounderfounded 2012-01-01
- Nicolas Simoncofounderfounded 2012-01-01
- Jean-Louis Constanzacofounderfounded 2012-01-01no longer at company
- Alexandre Boulangercofounderfounded 2012-01-01no longer at company
Former / Previously (1)
- Alexandre Boulanger Co-founder and Managing Director2012 to 2019reported, not verified
Media (2)
Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.
Wandercraft's own film about its work with NVIDIA, published around CES 2025. It concerns the exoskeleton line and predates Calvin-40, which was unveiled in June 2025, so it establishes a working relationship with NVIDIA but is not evidence for the Calvin-40 compute stack specifically. It is a manufacturer film, not independent reporting.
Wandercraft co-founder Nicolas Simon and exoskeleton user Charlotte Fairbank presenting at the ITU AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, July 2024. A conference keynote given by the company, so it is a first-party account of the exoskeleton programme rather than independent assessment.
Safety record
1 recall and 1 incident on record (2 serious). Most recent: Apr 2025.
Most recent: Apr 2025
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Incidents affecting Wandercraft (2)
Includes incidents linked directly to this company, to its models, or to deployments of its models or under its operation. Retracted incidents are excluded from this view but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Operator customers (2)
- Wandercraft2 deployments
- Renault Group1 deployment
Recent coverage
Wandercraft in third-party press
Peers
28 peers across 1 segment. Every Wandercraft competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
exoskeleton(28)
23 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 5009.45179584121) · leader Hypershell at 5217%
- Sarcos Roboticsadjacent competitor(reported)weak
- SuitX (US Bionics)adjacent competitor(reported)weak
- ATOUNdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Againer Skidirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- B-TEMIAdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Bionik Laboratoriesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (7)
Registry pages whose text names Wandercraft.
Robots and products (1)
Deployments (1)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $120.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
2 total · 1 operating · 1 just announced
Every company Wandercraft has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Wandercraft x NVIDIA (Calvin-40 stack)2025-06-11with NVIDIAjust announced
- Renault Group x Wandercraft (Calvin-40)2025-06-07with Renault Groupoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA1× joint1116 total
- 2Renault Group1× joint1 total
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology2025-06-11just announced
- development2025-06-07operating
Funding rounds (3)
Wandercraft’s 3 disclosed rounds, $230M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series E (seeking)2026-09-02
$110M(reported)
- Series D2025-06-11
$75M(reported) · $900M post
Investors: Renault Group (lead), Bpifrance, Teampact Ventures, Quadrant Management
- Series C2023-06-01
$45M(reported) · $450M post
Timeline
Every recorded move in Wandercraft’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipRenault x Wandercraft 350 humanoid robot deployment
2026-07-01Renault Group plans to deploy 350 humanoid robots in partnership with French robotics firm Wandercraft. Deployment across Renault manufacturing facilities. Wandercraft also developing personal exoskeleton powered by physical AI.
Funding roundSeries D funding round
2025-06-11Series D raising $75000000
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2023-06-01Series C raising $45000000
Key hireMatthieu Masselin joins as CEO & Co-founder
2012-01-01Matthieu Masselin appointed CEO & Co-founder (current)
Key hireNicolas Simon joins as Co-founder & Chairman
2012-01-01Nicolas Simon appointed Co-founder & Chairman (current)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedSep 15, 2026
Keynote Presentation, AI for Good Global Summit 2024
- Verified media addedVerifiedSep 15, 2026
Revolutionizing Mobility: Wandercraft's AI Journey with NVIDIA
- Verified media addedVerifiedSep 15, 2026
Introducing Calvin-40
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Wandercraft Atalante X features demonstration
- Record createdJun 6, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (4)
- https://www.massdevice.com/fda-expands-indications-wandercraft-atalante-exoskeleton/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandercraft
- Calvin-40 · https://www.wandercraft.eu/calvin
- Wandercraft announces Series D Round, bringing $75M in total funding secured · https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/06/11/3097632/0/en/Wandercraft-announces-Series-D-Round-bringing-75M-in-total-funding-secured-for-global-acceleration-of-AI-powered-robotics.html
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Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-15
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-15
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Wandercraft.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
- 1X Technologies5 models
- AgiBot5 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Wandercraft from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Wandercraft Acquires Ekso Bionics to Expand Medical Exoskeleton Business
Insider Brief Wandercraft has acquired Ekso Bionics from a subsidiary of ChronoScale Holdings, combining two medical exoskeleton developers with complementary products and…
Renault-Backed Wandercraft Seeks €100 Million in New Funding
Wandercraft, the French robotics startup backed by Renault SA, is seeking about €100 million ($116 million) in fresh funding to expand its business, people with knowledge of the…
Calvin: a new-generation robot is born
Forget Tesla’s Optimus: Renault’s Robot Is Already Doing Backbreaking Work
Hello Calvin! Renault’s new robot may already be helping build your next car
First patient enrolls in clinical trial for Wandercraft Atalante X exoskeleton
Wandercraft Appoints Permobil CEO Chuck Witkowski to Board
The Walking ICU: Wandercraft and Brigham and Women’s Test Robotics on Critical Patients
Picture of the Day: Wandercraft Calvin-40, humanoid robotics winner
Humanoid robots enter Sapa's Benevento factory. Agreement signed with Wandercraft
Wandercraft and SAPA Announce Deployment Partnership in
NEURA Robotics, Wandercraft Among Winners of the Humanoid Robotics Industry Awards 2025
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/wandercraft.md
- RSS feed: /companies/wandercraft/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/1942437f-dbb8-4059-9dcb-6b87817b7950
- Revision history: /companies/wandercraft/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
- 1X Technologies5 models
- AgiBot5 models
Video
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The inspiration behind Wandercraft's exoskeletons came from home, and now Chairman Nicolas Simon and CEO Matthieu Masselin tell us how they want their devices t
Revolutionizing Mobility for People with Walking Disabilities Over the past 40 years, the world has transitioned from rotary phones to smartphones, floppy disk
A new chapter begins 🤝 We’re proud to announce a strategic partnership between Wandercraft and Renault Group. Renault Group has joined our journey and shar
Revolutionizing Mobility for People with Walking Disabilities Over the past 40 years, the world has transitioned from rotary phones to smartphones, floppy disk
This video showcases Wandercraft’s groundbreaking work with NVIDIA AI technology, highlighted at CES 2025. Explore how AI is driving the future of mobility and
Join our Robot Optimise Industry (ROI) Workshop: https://robophil.com/ Wandercraft & Renault have just revealed CALVIN – the fastest-built humanoid robot yet!
Seen on the La Poste Groupe colissimo booth here at #VivaTech. I have seen a lot of different #humanoid robots the past 18 months, this is my 1st time meeting
Heat Index
Category contender77/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Wandercraft draws attention at the 83rd percentile but verifies reality at the 71st percentile among exoskeletons. Hype Gap +11.2, 21st widest among exoskeletons.
6-month trend
Analysis
Well-capitalized with $230M raised and recent funding activity. Safety profile within acceptable range for category. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 19, 2026