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What are we talking about here? The exoskeleton maker didn’t go into bankruptcy. The exoskeleton is not dependent on cloud services (or at least it is not reported that they would have gone away) and no company acquired anyone.

You are proposing extensive changes, with undeniably serious chance of side effects and your proposal doesn’t even address the issue from the article.

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Exactly. The problem here is that the company has set a policy not to support $100,000 medical equipment after 5 years. Mind boggling - imagine if an aircraft manufacturer said the same thing. Using aircraft as an example, they are still in service after 50 years and parts still available for many of them. A similar approach should be taken to equipment like this exoskeleton

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