Injury intelligence
There’s a moment every athlete carries, the one right before.
Melbourne Bionics is wearable injury intelligence. Ares captures the signal at the lower limb. Athena turns it into a call your coaches can make in seconds.
The problem
The lower-limb blind spot.
Existing tools estimate lower-limb load from data captured elsewhere on the body, then infer what happened at the leg. Muscle activation and load asymmetry, the two signals that flag risk earliest, do not survive that estimate.
Performance and medical departments are often one person deep, responsible for an entire roster, without the tools to match.
The solution
Two products, one system.
Ares
The sleeve that captures the signal.
A first-of-its-kind wearable that captures what other tools miss. Muscle activation and load asymmetry help flag injury risks before they happen and refine technique along the way. Works standalone with Athena, or exports straight into the dashboard you already use.
How Ares worksAthena
The platform that helps makes the call.
Ares captures. Athena scores. Real-time risk scores and replay turn raw data into a call your coaches can make in seconds, included by default with every Ares sleeve.
Insights with AthenaDifferentiation
Captured at the source, not estimated from elsewhere.
Ares is worn like the compression gear players already use. It fuses muscle activity, measured by electromyography (EMG), with motion and quantified force into a single lab-grade signal, taken at the leg rather than inferred from the torso or wrist.
Every sleeve is fitted from a 3D scan of the individual athlete, so the sensors sit where they need to sit on that player, not on an average one.
What it gives you
What it gives you.
Career-saving
Injury prevention
Ares captures the signals that flag lower-limb injury risk, including the mechanisms behind career-ending injuries.
Performance
Technique refinement
The same data that flags injury risk often reveals the technique issue behind it. Asymmetric loading, for example, can mean a player favouring one leg, showing up as both a performance limiter and an early injury signal.
Capacity
A complete program
Ares and Athena arrive as a complete program: custom fitting, setup, and a platform that tells you what to do next.
Proof
Built on published research.
The sensing approach behind Ares is documented in peer-reviewed research on combined inertial measurement unit (IMU) and electromyography (EMG) measurement, published in Scientific Reports (2026).
Melbourne Bionics is an active pilot and research partner with key Australian sports organisations.
See the research
When a lower-limb injury can cost a career.
Precision matters.
Performance and medical departments carrying an entire roster get a full program: custom in-person fitting for every athlete, setup, and Athena included by default.