About ReAble Labs
A prosthetic hand that genuinely works should not cost a year's salary. We started ReAble Labs to do something about that.
Our story
Engineering, not awareness-raising.
ReAble Labs is an early-stage Irish medtech company with two co-founders, engineering prototypes, and a small workshop in Dublin. Our goal is plain: a powered prosthetic hand that costs less than a year's salary. We are pre-clinical, working toward our first fittings.
The technology to build a genuinely useful powered prosthetic hand has existed for years. The question was never whether it could be done. It was that nobody had put the actuators, the materials, and the control techniques together in a way ordinary people, and the clinicians who serve them, could actually afford.
That is the gap we are building in.
Mission and values
Advanced prosthetics should be affordable, customisable, and easy to maintain.
That is the mission. The four pillars below are how we hold ourselves to it on the days when shortcuts look tempting.
Accessible
Built to reach every hand that needs one. Pricing, design, and supply chain optimised for global access.
Intelligent
Diego is designed to fit the wearer. EMG-based control that adapts to each user through calibration, tuned to the way your muscles already move.
Repairable
Every part replaceable, none proprietary-locked. A broken Diego should never mean starting over.
Personal
Diego is given a name, and Diego is given to a person. Customisable finishes, wearer-led grip patterns, and a fitting built around the person who ends up wearing it.
The team
People you can put a face to.
Two co-founders, an engineer and a clinician, both of whom answer their own emails.
Founder and CEO
Sean Barrett
Mechanical design, electronics, and product development.
Co-Founder and Clinical Lead
William Hartley
Clinical insight, patient needs, and medical device design.
We are building the team that builds the platform. If you are an engineer, a clinician, or a designer who believes restorative technology should be available everywhere, we would like to hear from you.
See open rolesBuilt in Dublin
Proudly Irish. Quietly ambitious.
Dublin is a good city for medical technology. Small enough that you keep running into the people who taught you, big enough that the talent pool is real, and stubborn enough that you are taken seriously when you say you are going to build something hard.
Ireland's wider MedTech ecosystem (clinical research centres, university engineering schools, established device manufacturers) gives a young company the second-order resources that usually only show up in places like Boston or Zurich. It is one of the reasons we are here, and one of the reasons we plan to stay.
We do everything from our Dublin workshop. The hands are designed, printed, assembled, and tested here. When we ship our first hands to patients, a piece of Dublin will go with them.
Get involved
Want to join our journey?
Whether you are a researcher, a clinician, a future hire, or someone who just wants to say hello, we would like to hear from you.