Affordable prosthetics and orthotics to rival the world’s best devices

par | Avr 29, 2022 | Assistive technology, Awards, honors and fellowships, D-Lab, Global, india, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Startups

In 2014, Arun Cherian returned to his home country of India to help his sister with her wedding. By that time Cherian had earned his master’s in mechanical engineering at Columbia University, spent four years as a researcher at the University of California at...

System helps severely motor-impaired individuals type more quickly and accurately

par | Avr 5, 2022 | Assistive technology, Computer science and technology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Human-computer interaction, IDSS, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), machine learning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, National Science Foundation (NSF), Research, School of Engineering

In 1995, French fashion magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a seizure while driving a car, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome, a neurological disease in which the patient is completely paralyzed and can only move muscles that control...