{"id":137048,"date":"2022-03-18T13:02:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T20:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/indian-startup-creates-a-bionic-arm-thats-90-cheaper"},"modified":"2022-03-18T13:02:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T20:02:19","slug":"indian-startup-creates-a-bionic-arm-thats-90-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/indian-startup-creates-a-bionic-arm-thats-90-cheaper","title":{"rendered":"Indian Startup Creates a Bionic Arm That\u2019s 90% Cheaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/indian-startup-creates-a-bionic-arm-thats-90-cheaper3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An advanced bionic arm can be life-changing for a person with an upper limb amputation. But in India, with a population of nearly 1.4 billion and average income of just $2,000 a year, advanced prosthetics are financially out of reach for many amputees.<\/p>\n<p>So the Indian startup Makers Hive developed one that\u2019s not only 90% cheaper, but also more functional.<\/p>\n<p>Advanced prosthetics: A bionic arm contains sensors that press against the skin of the wearer\u2019s residual limb to detect electrical signals from their nerves.<\/p>\n<p>The 3D-printed, lightweight KalArm is the result of those efforts. It features 16 grips, customizable panels, and a companion app, which can be used to monitor the arm\u2019s performance, as well as install firmware updates.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Indian startup Makers Hive has developed a bionic arm that\u2019s not only 90% cheaper than most, but also more functional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An advanced bionic arm can be life-changing for a person with an upper limb amputation. But in India, with a population of nearly 1.4 billion and average income of just $2,000 a year, advanced prosthetics are financially out of reach for many amputees. So the Indian startup Makers Hive developed one that\u2019s not only 90% [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}