The founders.
Sean Barrett
Co-founder, CEO and CTO
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, UCC
William Hartley
Co-founder and COO
Medical student, Trinity College Dublin
Why we started this.
A working powered hand has been possible for years. What has been missing is one that most people could pay for, and fix without sending it away. The technology exists. The price tag does not have to follow.
Three principles we wrote down so we cannot quietly drop them.
Transparency
We publish our regulatory status plainly, and we do not claim performance we have not measured. If we have not tested it, we do not say it.Durability
Every part that wears is a part the wearer can replace. A hand that breaks should not leave someone waiting on a courier.Global accessibility
We set the price for a person paying out of their own pocket, in any country, and we check every design decision against it.
What has happened so far.
ReAble Labs Ltd incorporated.
Won the Hult Prize Irish National Final.
AIB Student Impact Award for Enterprise and Innovation.
Clinical observation at the National Rehabilitation Hospital.
Clinical evaluation completed with Health Innovation Hub Ireland.
Letter of intent for a US clinical collaboration with Brooks Rehabilitation, Florida.
Preprint published on a leak-safe benchmark for surface EMG grasp decoding.Preprint published on a leak-safe benchmark for surface EMG grasp decoding.
Patent application filed.
One of 21 teams at the Hult Prize Global Accelerator, Ashridge House, near London. Pitched at Google as part of the programme.
Enterprise Ireland New Frontiers.
Recognition
We won the Irish final, then spent August near London with 20 other teams.
We work in Dublin and Cork.
No open roles right now. If you build hardware, firmware or robot learning systems, write to us anyway.