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Startup Testing User Repairable Prosthesis
Photograph courtesy of Social Hardware.
Social Hardware, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, is testing a durable, battery-operated, user-repairable prosthetic hand for people from low-income and rural communities in India. The startup aims to make its prostheses to the same standards as imported devices, which can cost over six times the average monthly income of a rural Indian family and are unsuitable for the tasks of rural life. Rural areas are home to more than 70 percent of India's population. MORE
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