Research and Partners
We are looking for partners across clinical care, manufacturing, research, and distribution who want to help make restorative technology genuinely accessible.
How we work
Open and evidence-led, from the first conversation.
Good devices come out of joint work. The most useful progress happens when an engineering team, a clinical team, and a research lab sit at the same table, and each is willing to be wrong out loud.
We are careful with claims. Where we have measured something, we share the measurement and the method. Where the work is still in progress, we say so plainly, and we expect the same standard from the people we work with.
Diego is pre-clinical. The partnerships we form now will shape how it reaches its first users.
Who we partner with
Four kinds of collaboration we are open to.
Clinical partners
Rehabilitation facilities, prosthetics clinics, and independent practitioners interested in supervised pilot trials and outcome research when trials begin.
Who we are looking for
Clinics willing to take part in supervised pilot fittings once trials begin, share clinical insight, and feed back into development.
Manufacturing and supply
Suppliers and contract manufacturers who emphasise quality and affordable pricing, especially those with reach into low- and middle-income regions.
Who we are looking for
Component, polymer, and electronics suppliers, plus assembly and quality partners with medical-grade processes.
Research and academic
Institutions collaborating on EMG signal processing, human factors research, and clinical validation methodology.
Who we are looking for
Universities and labs working in actuation, control, materials, biomechanics, or human-machine interaction.
Distribution and market access
Organisations building medical device distribution for underserved markets that currently lack access to high-end prosthetics.
Who we are looking for
Distributors and access programmes serving regions where prosthetic care is hard to reach.
Currently backed by
The people supporting our early work.
Three Irish institutions are backing ReAble Labs as we work toward clinical readiness.
Enterprise Ireland. New Frontiers.
The New Frontiers programme supports early-stage Irish startups with funding, mentorship, and infrastructure during the most formative period of company building.
Health Innovation Hub Ireland
Ireland’s national initiative for clinically-led innovation. Our work with HIHI has opened exploratory sessions inside real clinical settings.
Hult Prize National Winner Ireland
Recognised at the Irish national finals as one of the country’s leading early-stage social impact ventures, and through to the global stage.
Research in progress
Developing our EMG control, in the open.
We are building an in-house EMG decoder aimed at faster, more data-efficient calibration, so a new user spends less time training the system before it responds usefully.
This work is in development. We are re-running our evaluation and will publish results once the work is complete and peer-reviewed, with the method and data described in full.
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Working with ReAble Labs.
We bring engineering, manufacturing, and clinical capability to the table, and we are looking for collaborators who bring the rest.
We welcome conversations with international labs and clinics, including US-based groups in biomechanics, robotics, and rehabilitation.
Tell us how we might work together
What we bring
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Working prototype hardware and a software stack with documented interfaces, ready for collaborative development.
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An in-house workshop with 3D-printing, electronics, and assembly capability.
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A team that builds hardware and is comfortable working alongside clinicians.
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A written-down, low-bureaucracy approach to collaboration agreements.
What we are looking for
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Clinical partners who would help design supervised pilots and outcome research once Diego reaches first fittings.
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Manufacturing and supply partners who hold quality and affordable pricing together.
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Research groups working on actuation, control, materials, or human studies.
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Distribution partners working to reach underserved markets.
Clinical · Manufacturing · Research · Distribution
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