We start with the problems.
$57M
persons with upper-limp amputations worldwide
85%
of Amputees Live in low- and middle-income households
$60,000+
Traditional prosthetics are so expensive
making them inaccessible
making them inaccessible
< 92%
Users have non-functional prosthetic.
Dof
Most Prosthetics offer only 2-3 degrees of freedom
Unfit
Legycy prosthetics are for unfit Active Lifestyles
Refitting
Every 3 years
→ Our MIssion
Vision
Every light in this room, every heartbeat‑steady packet racing through the air, every whisper of code on a cloud server: none of it existed in our great‑grandparents’ imaginations. They lit candles at dusk and trusted letters to ships. Today we converse at the speed of thought and map galaxies from laptops in cafés.
Progress Rooted in Purpose
That dizzying arc was never about metal or mathematics alone. It sprang from an instinct to stretch possibility until it touches someone else’s life. The first electric pulse across a telegraph wire did not celebrate copper; it celebrated connection. The first vaccine did not flaunt chemistry; it flaunted compassion.
The New Frontier of Tools
Now we stand before inventions that read like yesterday’s science fiction: artificial intelligence that reasons, quantum processors solving in seconds what once took centuries, bio‑foundries printing living tissue, satellites spotting wildfires before a single tree is lost, solar panels cheaper than coal ever dared to be.
The Question of Service
Yet for all that wonder a deeper question echoes what will we choose to serve? Will we build systems that lock people out or lift them in? Algorithms that amplify fear or amplify possibility? Will we chase vanity metrics, or chase the moment a teenager in a remote village opens an online classroom and learns to code because the network we laid reached her doorstep?
Purpose as Operating System
Technology is neutral only in textbooks. In hands guided by empathy it becomes a prosthetic, a vaccine, a lifeline. In hands guided by greed it becomes noise or worse. Purpose is our most powerful operating system. It sets the permissions on every line of code, every material we mill, every patent we file. Purpose reminds us that the true key performance indicator is the goosebumps on a parent’s arms when their child’s world expands.
Call to Builders
So I invite every engineer, every policymaker, every curious student listening tonight: let curiosity drive you, let rigor discipline you, but let purpose decide your destination. Build the sensor that saves a harvest, the battery that powers a village at midnight, the data model that diagnoses disease before symptoms speak its name.
Our Future Is a Project
The future is not an inevitability; it is a project. It can be equitable or exclusive, sustainable or extractive, breathtakingly humane or coldly efficient. We get to choose. We must choose. And when we choose well, the road ahead does not merely sparkle with innovation; it roars with hope.
Every light in this room, every heartbeat‑steady packet racing through the air, every whisper of code on a cloud server: none of it existed in our great‑grandparents’ imaginations. They lit candles at dusk and trusted letters to ships. Today we converse at the speed of thought and map galaxies from laptops in cafés.
Progress Rooted in Purpose
That dizzying arc was never about metal or mathematics alone. It sprang from an instinct to stretch possibility until it touches someone else’s life. The first electric pulse across a telegraph wire did not celebrate copper; it celebrated connection. The first vaccine did not flaunt chemistry; it flaunted compassion.
The New Frontier of Tools
Now we stand before inventions that read like yesterday’s science fiction: artificial intelligence that reasons, quantum processors solving in seconds what once took centuries, bio‑foundries printing living tissue, satellites spotting wildfires before a single tree is lost, solar panels cheaper than coal ever dared to be.
The Question of Service
Yet for all that wonder a deeper question echoes what will we choose to serve? Will we build systems that lock people out or lift them in? Algorithms that amplify fear or amplify possibility? Will we chase vanity metrics, or chase the moment a teenager in a remote village opens an online classroom and learns to code because the network we laid reached her doorstep?
Purpose as Operating System
Technology is neutral only in textbooks. In hands guided by empathy it becomes a prosthetic, a vaccine, a lifeline. In hands guided by greed it becomes noise or worse. Purpose is our most powerful operating system. It sets the permissions on every line of code, every material we mill, every patent we file. Purpose reminds us that the true key performance indicator is the goosebumps on a parent’s arms when their child’s world expands.
Call to Builders
So I invite every engineer, every policymaker, every curious student listening tonight: let curiosity drive you, let rigor discipline you, but let purpose decide your destination. Build the sensor that saves a harvest, the battery that powers a village at midnight, the data model that diagnoses disease before symptoms speak its name.
Our Future Is a Project
The future is not an inevitability; it is a project. It can be equitable or exclusive, sustainable or extractive, breathtakingly humane or coldly efficient. We get to choose. We must choose. And when we choose well, the road ahead does not merely sparkle with innovation; it roars with hope.
Ahmed Ibrahim
Founder & CEO