Vilje Bionics
About
About Vilje Bionics
Vilje Bionics develops VilPower, a powered orthosis that assists movement through the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand. The wearable recognises a user's intended movement without invasive sensors and adds motorised support, including help with opening and closing the hand. Each unit is individually fitted for people with reduced arm function, including users affected by stroke or other neurological injury and those with hand spasticity.
VilPower weighs 1.9 kilograms and is intended to support everyday activities across the full arm instead of training a single joint in a clinic. Development combines robotics engineering with input from users, orthopaedic professionals and rehabilitation specialists. The device remains in pre-commercial introduction: Vilje presents demonstration units and plans delivery as a personalised orthopaedic aid, with its current programme focused on product refinement, usability and risk reduction.
Products
- VilPower
VilPower
Funding
- 2025-09-22 - Equity financing - $1.7M - Vilje Bionics raises NOK 17 million equity round within NOK 19 million package
Vilje Bionics secured NOK 17 million in new equity alongside NOK 2 million from Innovation Norway, forming a NOK 19 million financing package. - source: shifter.no
Investors
- George Emil Aubert - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-09-22
- Leo Bendvold - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-09-22
- MP Pensjon - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-09-22
- Oyvind Gedde - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-09-22
Team
- Saeid Hosseini - Chief Executive Officer - Leads development and commercialization of the VilPower full-arm powered orthosis.
- Eirik Bodsberg - Chief Technology Officer - Leads technical development of Vilje Bionics' powered upper-limb assistance system.
- Asmund Kollbye - Chief Product Officer / Product Lead - Leads product development for Vilje Bionics.
- Jostein Løwer - Robotics Engineer - Develops the control and robotics systems behind VilPower.
- Maren K. Fossum - Chief Operating Officer / Quality & Operations - Leads operations and quality for the medical-device programme.
- Julia Kenel - Robotics Engineer - Develops robotics systems for VilPower.
- Leo Bendvold - Product Designer - Leads industrial and user-centred design work for VilPower.
- Adrian K. Aasheim - Head of Finance & Business Development - Leads finance and business development for Vilje Bionics.
- Johanne Marie Hemnes - Occupational Therapist - Contributes clinical and user insight to product development.
Timeline
Events
- 2025-09-22 - Funding - Vilje Bionics raises NOK 17 million equity round within NOK 19 million package
The directed equity issue contributed NOK 17 million; Innovation Norway contributed a further NOK 2 million. Named investors included MP Pensjon, George Emil Aubert, Oyvind Gedde and Leo Bendvold. The mixed package is preserved as NOK 17 million equity plus NOK 2 million public support rather than treated as a NOK 19 million equity round.
Source - 2024-11-19 - Award - Research Council awards Vilje Bionics NOK 6 million development grant
The award was granted on 19 November 2024. The support is classified as experimental development. The award was received on 21 May 2025.
Source - 2024-01-16 - Award - Innovation Norway awards Vilje Bionics NOK 3.975 million
The company was testing prototypes with prospective users and working toward a first saleable version. Vilje had established development relationships with Blatchford Ortopedi and Sunnaas Hospital. The award supports product development; it is not evidence that commercial sales had begun.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Sunnaas Hospital
Clinical Rehabilitation Partner - Vilje Bionics works with Sunnaas Hospital on clinical and rehabilitation input for its wearable arm-support system.
- Blatchford Ortopedi
Orthopaedic Development Partner - Vilje Bionics works with Blatchford Ortopedi on orthopaedic-clinic testing and product development for its wearable arm-support system.
Context
Comparable profiles
- BrainCo
comparable profile - Assistive Bionics
- Seismic
comparable profile - Assistive Bionics
- Wearable Robotics
stack adjacency - Intent Based Motion Control
- Fourier Intelligence
stack adjacency - Intent Based Motion Control
Shared workflows
- Human Robotix
workflow adjacency - Upper Limb Rehabilitation
- Vincent Systems GmbH
workflow adjacency - Assistive Hand Function
- Dynamic Solution
workflow adjacency - Upper Limb Rehabilitation
- Samsung Electronics
workflow adjacency - Wearable Assistive Robotics
- RB3D
workflow adjacency - Wearable Assistive Robotics
- REEV
workflow adjacency - Wearable Assistive Robotics
- Ottobock
workflow adjacency - Wearable Assistive Robotics
- MileBot Robotics
workflow adjacency - Wearable Assistive Robotics
Context tags
- Assistive bionics - Peer Group - Assistive bionics is a documented company focus.
- Intent-based motion control - Capability - Intent-based motion control is a documented company focus.
- Assistive hand function - Workflow - Official product copy documents powered support for wrist and grip as well as shoulder and elbow.
- Upper-limb rehabilitation - Workflow - VilPower supports shoulder, elbow, wrist and grip movement for people with neurological upper-limb impairment.
- Wearable Assistive Robotics - Workflow - Official VilPower page documents a wearable powered orthosis supporting the full arm.