NextStep Robotics is a Baltimore medical device company spun out of the University of Maryland, Baltimore that builds AMBLE, a wearable robotic system for treating foot drop and gait impairment after stroke, spinal cord injury, and traumatic brain injury. The technology is based on roughly a decade of research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Baltimore VA Motor Performance Laboratory. AMBLE holds FDA clearance as an exercise device for gait therapy in clinical settings, and the company has been pursuing De Novo classification to broaden its therapeutic claims. It was founded in 2017 by Bradley Hennessie, Richard Macko, Larry Forrester, and Anindo Roy, and is headquartered at the University of Maryland BioPark campus in Baltimore.