Rex Bionics PLC Rex Bionics plays key role in Irving Caplan story

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Rex Bionics PLC

02 October 2014

2 October 2014

Rex Bionics plc

("Rex Bionics" or the "Company")

Rex Bionics is proud to have played a central role in the extraordinary story of Irving Caplan

Rex Bionics plc (AIM: RXB), the developer and manufacturer of REX products: hands-free robotic exoskeletons for use by wheelchair users, is honoured to have been able to help Irving Caplan, a tetraplegic father, to walk 30 steps across the dance floor to give a speech at his daughter's wedding.

Irving was cycling to work in 2012 when he collided with a lorry in Edgware, North London. He broke three vertebrae and spent 12 days in intensive care before being told he would never be able to walk again and would instead be reliant upon a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Attending an exhibition for people with disabilities, Rex Bionics arranged to loan Irving a REX for the wedding.

The story of Irving who, with the help of a REX, was able to stand up and walk 30 steps at daughter Joanne's wedding, generated significant media interest. The story featured in several prominent international newspapers and radio broadcasts including BBC News, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Sunday Times, Mail Online, The Mirror, London Evening Standard, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live.

The publicity surrounding Mr. Caplan's achievement follows several other high profile news items and TV appearances about REX and its ability to allow those who have lost their mobility to stand and walk again.

Jeremy Curnock Cook, Chief Executive of Rex Bionics, commented: "The story of Irving's triumph over his disability to share in the most emotional moment of his daughter's life has captured the public imagination and is an inspiration to people with mobility impairments. Rex Bionics is proud to have played a part in enabling Irving to fulfil his dream, and thrilled to see such widespread interest."

Irving's story is an example of how REX is helping people with mobility impairments carry out activities without the use of crutches or walking frames to support them. Rex Bionics looks forward to finding other opportunities to help people carry out many different activities while gaining the benefits of being upright in a standing position.

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For further information please contact:

Rex Bionics Plc

Jeremy Curnock Cook, Chief Executive Officer

+44 (0) 781 086 6386

Peter Worrall, Chief Financial Officer

+44 (0)1428 645416

Oriel Securities Limited (NOMAD and Broker)

Juliet Thompson/Jonathan Senior

+44 (0) 20 7710 7600

Consilium Strategic Communications

Mary-Jane Elliott / Emma Thompson / Jessica Hodgson / Lindsey Neville

rexbionics@consilium-comms.com

+44 (0) 203 709 5700

About Rex Bionics

Rex Bionics (AIM: RXB) is an AIM-listed developer and manufacturer of REX products, hands-free robotic exoskeletons for use by people with mobility impairments. Founded in Auckland, New Zealand by two robotics engineers with first-hand experience of wheelchair users and their needs, Rex Bionics focuses on products designed to enable wheelchair users to stand and walk autonomously without the need for crutches or supports and is the only company to produce hands-free walking devices for wheelchair users. Rex Bionics' marketed products: REX Rehab and REX Personal, can be used by people with complete spinal cord injury, but also by a much broader potential customer base, including people with multiple sclerosis and muscular dystrophy. In May 2014, Rex Bionics joined AIM with a fundraising of GBP10 million (gross) to scale up production, distribution and marketing internationally, in order to support growing demand for both REX products as well as developing the next generation of REX devices, REX 3.

For more information please visit, www.rexbionics.com

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