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Kailas Narendran, a friend of mine from high school, is one of the founders of a company called Myomo that was recently profiled in the New York Times. They have developed a joint brace that helps patients with limited mobility in their arms regain some of that mobility.

“The device is designed to help get patients over a functional hump - so they can start moving the weakened arm again, said John McBean, a mechanical engineer who developed the technology with Kailas Narendran, an electrical engineer and computer scientist. (The two began the project in 2002, in a graduate robotics class at M.I.T.)”

This is amazing work and I’m glad to know someone who’s involved in it.

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