South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Technology and Information Promotion Agency said on Thursday that Exosystems, founded through the TeX-Corps lab startup exploration support programme, won an Innovation Award in the digital health category at CES 2026, the world's largest IT exhibition.

Exosystems was recognised for the innovation of exoRehab, an AI digital biomarker-based personalised healthcare solution for managing musculoskeletal diseases, a key challenge in an ageing society.

exoRehab uses wearable sensors and AI analytics to analyse and monitor musculoskeletal movement and muscle-use data. It offers an integrated service model spanning patient-specific exercise protocols to tracking and observing rehabilitation effects.

It is designed to allow patients who have difficulty visiting hospitals to receive professional rehabilitation care at home. The product and the company secured competitiveness and credibility in the remote treatment monitoring market through various government research and development programmes and designation schemes.

Exosystems Chief Executive Lee Hu-man (이후만) said participation in the lab startup exploration support programme was an opportunity to turn laboratory technology into technology demanded by the market. He said the company will grow into a leading digital healthcare firm that takes responsibility for everything from diagnosis to treatment of musculoskeletal diseases based on muscle biosignal data.

The ministry and the agency are also pushing ahead with the programme's third cohort this year. They plan to recruit 247 startup exploration teams from university and government-funded institute researchers, centred on 14 lab startup innovation groups.