Innovations
Three assistive and health-monitoring devices — each designed, built, and tested in-house by founder Annika Chadha to keep older adults safer and more independent.
Mobility & fall prevention · Assistive robotics
OmniWheel Walker
A retrofittable smart walker built on a “Bell-and-Cup” omnidirectional wheel — adding gait/stability sensing, lidar obstacle detection, and automatic braking to turn a passive frame into an active fall-prevention system.
Passive health monitoring · Biomedical IoT
VitaSeat
A smart toilet-seat replacement that passively reads heart rate, blood oxygen, and temperature through the femoral artery, adds UV-C sanitation, and reports to a companion app — for people who can’t reliably self-monitor.
Smart materials & tribology
Adaptive-Traction MREs
3D-printed magnetorheological elastomers whose grip increases under body weight — a passive, battery-free anti-slip material. First application: a prosthetic-foot sole that grips on wet surfaces like the shower.
Research prototype
This is an early-stage research prototype developed for engineering study and grant applications. It is not available for sale, has not been cleared or approved by the FDA, and performance results to date are from in-house testing pending independent validation. Nothing here is medical advice.
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