Students Engineer Easily Accessible Bionics
From: Medical Design Technology - 05/06/2015

Patrick Slade, a junior in MechSE, and Aadeel Akhtar, a PhD student in
Neuroscience are members of the Bretl Robotics and Neuroscience Research
Group and both research bionic prostheses. They both decided that someone
should build more low-cost prostheses, so even people in third-world
countries can have access to the technology. So in their spare time, they've
started a company, PSYONIC. And they're on their way: Akhtar and Slade and
their fledgling company recently won the Cozad New Venture Competition held
on Friday, April 24 at the Illini Union; the prize: $25,000 to begin their
company and start building prostheses like the ones they've been
designing—only better, and at a lower cost!

Read the entire article at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2015/05/photos-day-students-engineer-easily-accessible-bionics

Links:
Two Illinois Students to Make Low-Cost Bionic Prosthetics More Accessible
http://www.istem.illinois.edu/news/slade.html

Bretl Robotics and Neuroscience Research Group
http://bretl.csl.illinois.edu

$160,000 awarded in funding and prizes at the 2015 Cozad New Venture
  Competition 
http://tec.illinois.edu/resources/news/11031

Cozad New Venture Competition 
http://tec.illinois.edu/experiences/cozad

PSYONIC - Aadeel Akhtar & Patrick Slade (video 0:58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuU2kIKGld4

Low-cost 3D-printed prosthetic hand to be tested on amputees in Ecuador
http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printed-prosthetic-hand/34615/