Status: pre-clinical. Engineering prototypes in active development.
“The real measure of impact is still ahead of us, in the hands of the people we are building for.”
We are proud to share that ReAble Labs has been recognised with the AIB Student Impact Award for Enterprise and Innovation, presented at Croke Park. It is a real honour, and one that means a great deal to a young company still very much in the building phase.
What the award recognises
The AIB Student Impact Awards celebrate students who are turning ideas into ventures with genuine potential to make a difference. The Enterprise and Innovation category specifically recognises work that pairs entrepreneurial drive with original thinking, which is exactly the space ReAble is trying to occupy.
For us, the recognition is not really about the award itself. It is about what it signals: that the problem we have chosen to work on, making prosthetic care more accessible, faster, and more affordable, is one that people outside our own four walls believe is worth solving. When an organisation like AIB puts its name behind that, it gives an early venture both confidence and credibility at a stage when both are in short supply.
The work behind it
ReAble Labs is building accessible myoelectric prosthetics, with a focus on the socket and fit process that so often determines whether a device actually helps a patient or ends up unused. Our aim is to let a patient’s residual limb be scanned on a phone with LiDAR and translated into a CAD model that a prosthetist reviews and approves, cutting the time and cost of producing a well-fitting socket without taking the clinician out of the loop.
None of that happens without a lot of unglamorous work: prototyping, firmware, clinical visits, conversations with prosthetists and patients, and the slow process of learning what people actually need rather than what is easiest to build. Awards like this are a welcome marker along the way, but the real measure of impact is still ahead of us, in the hands of the people we are building for.
Thank you
Thank you to AIB for the recognition and for the work they do supporting student enterprise in Ireland. Thank you also to everyone who has supported ReAble so far, the mentors, partners, clinicians, and the people who keep telling us this problem is worth our time.
We are just getting started, and we are more motivated than ever to make the impact this award is betting on.
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