1. Group 15: Restoring Your Reach
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Group 15: Restoring Your Reach

2. Professional Stakeholder Group

3. Chosen Need: Reaching Aid
Breid - “Everything’s on the feckin’ ground”
Joan - Cannot bend down due to an operation.
Sile - Mentioned that she has trouble pick things up of the ground.
“6.5 Million people use a cane or crutch in the US” – NICHD
“1 in 6 people in Ireland are or will be affected by Arthritis” - RTE

4. “Our Mission is to restore the reaching ability of elderly persons”

5. Our Working Prototype Joystick Soft Robotic Grippers Forearm Support
Coffee Gripper
Forearm Support
Extendable Arm

6. Future Prototype Forearm support Intuitive Joystick controller
Sort robotic grabber
Coffee Gripper

7. Benefits Forearm support Portable and Light Doubles as a crutch
Minimising wrist strain
Portable and Light
Doubles as a crutch
Simple and Fun
Amplifies User’s Hand Strength

8. Thank you for listening
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