Santos FC get Hypershell exoskeletons for use in professional football | OneFootball

Santos FC received seven exoskeletons from Hypershell, including the Hypershell X Ultra S, the flagship model of the company’s new generation of smart exoskeletons. The equipment will now become part of the professional football work environment at CT Rei Pelé, where it will be evaluated by the Club’s staff for applications related to recovery and gradual return to activity, strength and endurance training, post-match recovery, and load management.

The delivery was accompanied by technical training led by physiotherapist Gustavo Balieiro, technical specialist at Hypershell Brazil and a professional working with exoskeletons and technologies applied to human movement. Balieiro holds a postgraduate degree in Neurological Rehabilitation from the Albert Einstein Israeli Hospital, where he also worked as a senior physiotherapist at the Rehabilitation Center.

During the training, the operation of the exoskeletons, the different levels of assistance and resistance, and the possibilities for integrating the technology into high-performance football routines were presented.

The new technology may be used in sessions supervised by professionals from the Club’s Physiotherapy department and other health and performance areas, who will evaluate its application in different training, recovery, and gradual return activities. The goal is to build practical knowledge about the equipment and understand in which situations the assistance or resistance provided by the exoskeleton can add value to the methods already used by Santos FC.

Hypershell uses high-performance electric motors, sensors, and artificial intelligence to continuously interpret the user’s movement pattern and adjust the motors’ action in real time. In the X Ultra S, the HyperIntuition™ system coordinates this response according to the characteristics of the movement, allowing both assistance and programmed resistance.

For professional football, three areas were highlighted during the technical presentation: recovery and gradual return to activity, strength and endurance training, and post-match recovery with load management. The equipment serves as a complementary tool, with its use defined and supervised by the professionals responsible for the athletes.

“More than delivering exoskeletons to Santos FC, our goal was to put the technology in the hands of the professionals who work daily with high-performance athletes. During the training, we were able to discuss real applications for recovery, strengthening, training, and load management. Now begins an even more important phase, which is evaluating Hypershell within the real routine of professional football,” says Wesley Moser Marques, director of UBTEC, Hypershell’s importer in Brazil.

Hypershell is a Chinese technology company specializing in the development of smart exoskeletons, combining robotics, electric motors, sensors, and artificial intelligence applied to human movement.

In Brazil, the products are imported by UBTEC, which is responsible for Hypershell Brazil’s operations, technical support, training, and the development of projects and partnerships.

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