CYBERDYNE, INC. (Headquarters: Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; President and CEO: Yoshiyuki Sankai; hereinafter “the Company”) is pleased to announce that the opening ceremony for the “PERKESO National Neuro-Robotics and Cybernics Rehabilitation Centre” (hereinafter “the Centre”), developed by the Social Security Organisation of Malaysia (PERKESO) in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, was held on June 16, 2026.
The opening ceremony was held in the gracious presence of His Royal Highness Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah, Sultan of Perak. Approximately 540 participants attended the ceremony, including around 30 Malaysian government dignitaries such as Minister of Human Resources Ramanan and Minister of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Steven Sim, as well as H.E. Noriyuki Shikata, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Malaysia, and the Company’s President and CEO, Yoshiyuki Sankai, Ph.D. (Professor, University of Tsukuba; Program Director for the Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) under the Cabinet Office, Government of Japan). At the ceremony, the Centre was also conferred the name “Pusat Rehabilitasi PERKESO Sultan Nazrin Shah.”
The Centre is one of Southeast Asia’s largest integrated medical complexes, providing solutions that integrate neuro-robotics and Cybernics. It is a national project symbolizing the social implementation of the “Cybernics Medical and Healthcare Innovation” that the Company has long promoted together with the Government of Malaysia and PERKESO. Developed on a site of approximately 15.6 hectares, the Centre is designed as a large-scale facility capable of accommodating up to 700 patients at one time and approximately 3,000 patients annually.
Strategic Collaboration with Malaysia Since 2018
The collaboration between the Company and PERKESO began in 2018, when PERKESO became the first organization in Southeast Asia to introduce HAL. Since then, both parties have worked with the Government of Malaysia to promote the adoption of Cybernics Treatment and have established a framework through PERKESO’s social security system that enables many patients to access advanced Cybernics Treatment.
In 2019, Malaysia’s first “Neuro-Robotics Rehabilitation & Cybernics Centre” was established in Melaka. Since then, Cybernics Treatment utilizing HAL has been provided for patients with spinal cord injuries, stroke, and other conditions, with the aim of improving and regenerating physical functions.
Against the backdrop of these initiatives, PERKESO announced its plan in 2022 for the “National Neuro-Robotics and Cybernics Rehabilitation Centre” and has since advanced the development of the Centre as a national-level integrated medical complex.
Becoming One of the World’s Largest-Scale HAL Deployment Sites
In May 2024, a Malaysian government delegation, including the Minister of Human Resources, visited the Company’s headquarters and announced a large-scale plan to introduce HAL at the Centre. Subsequently, the Company entered into an agreement with PERKESO to deploy 50 sets, comprising 65 units, of HAL, and operations at the Centre have now commenced. This represents one of the world’s largest-scale HAL deployments at a single facility.
Currently, 182 HAL units are in operation across 15 facilities in Malaysia, making the collaboration with PERKESO one of the world’s most advanced examples of the social implementation of Cybernics Treatment.
At the Centre, Cybernics products including HAL Lower Limb Type, HAL Single Joint Type, and HAL Lumbar Type will be utilized to provide comprehensive services not only for improving physical functions in patients with neurological disorders and workers injured in occupational accidents, but also for supporting their return to society and return to work.
Cybernics Medical and Healthcare Innovation Supporting the Journey from Treatment to Social Participation
The “Cybernics Medical and Healthcare Innovation” promoted by the Company is expected to serve as a new medical and welfare model that comprehensively supports functional improvement, functional regeneration, employment support, and social participation, based on the core technology of “HCPS Cybernics with Physical AI,” which fuses bio/medical systems with AI-robotics, and information systems.
The Centre is one of the world’s leading facilities implementing this vision at the national level. Going forward, it will serve as a hub for advanced medicine and healthcare not only in Malaysia but also across ASEAN and globally, and as a platform for disseminating Cybernics Medical and Healthcare Innovation that comprehensively supports the entire journey from functional improvement and regeneration to return to society and return to work.
Following the opening ceremony, discussions were also held on measures to further strengthen future collaboration, including the use of the Company’s “Cybernics Medical Innovation Base” in the Haneda Airport area, located at KING SKYFRONT in Tonomachi, Kawasaki City, to promote initiatives in Malaysia that support the journey from “treatment” to “social participation,” including regenerative medicine.
The Company will continue to deepen its collaboration with PERKESO and the Government of Malaysia, promote the social implementation of Cybernics technology, and accelerate the global expansion of Cybernics Medical and Healthcare Innovation.
About CYBERDYNE, INC.
CYBERDYNE aims to realize a future well-being society, which it calls a “Techno-Peer Support Society,” where people and technology coexist and support one another, enhancing the independence and freedom of all individuals, in order to address complex and structural social challenges such as the super-aging society. At the same time, the Company is promoting the creation of the “Cybernics Industry” following the robotics and IT industries as the next core industry.
With “HCPS Cybernics with Physical AI” — a core technology that fuses bio/medical systems with AI-robotics, and information systems — CYBERDYNE promotes two complementary business initiatives: “Cybernics Medical and Healthcare Innovation,” which connects hospitals, homes, and workplaces through AI-driven analysis, diagnosis, treatment, and data integration; and “Cybernics Life Innovation,” which applies AI-enabled control and assistance technologies to support human mobility, logistics, and work activities in everyday living and working environments. For more information, please visit www.cyberdyne.jp/en/