Nico's Grandfather

• MS is when your autoimmune system attacks your nerves and leads to paralysis, speech difficulty, and vision problems.

Forces in VR

I brainstormed 175 OI project and business ideas this summer in preparation for NuVu!

One idea stood out as fun, challenging, and impactful: simulating physical forces in virtual reality. I researched and designed solutions.

While these focused on broad use cases for VR, they also fully met the needs of E.L.I.!

A bad solution to the problem?

Source: the internet.

2 in 100 people live with paralysis



Paralysis has multiple causes:

• Autoimmune Diseases

• Physical accidents

• Cerebral Palsy

• Strokes

• & more

Many solutions exist today

nico you did most research here

Show what is done but what is bad about them in 3 sentence or less

EksoNR: rehab specific exo suit for the lower body.

Harmony: rehab exoskeleton for stroke patients' arms.

Myomo: exoskeleton restores arm functionality.

But are rehab focused, expensive, bulky

nico you did most research here

Show what is done but what is bad about them in 3 sentence or less

Harmony: for rehab only,

not long term functionality

Myomo: very expensive, bulky, not open source.

EksoNR: for leveled rehab only, not for home use

$36k - $65k pricetag!

E.L.I. restores arm functionality

E.L.I. restores arm movement and grip functionality for people with arm paralysis such as Nico's grandfather.

Functionality is restored from the elbow to the hand, enabling lower arm movement and providing a gripping device near the hand.

Users feel more in control, with boosted confidence and improved quality of life.

A good solution to the problem!

Source: the NuVu E.L.I. team.

There are two key modules

Gripper Module

Arm Movement Module

The gripper went through many iterations

We looked into a few first ideas:

Mechanical

Iris

Soft robotics

We took different parts of these and created our next prototype

Pictured: a few of the many, many attempts to solve this problem

Fewer arm iterations, many details to solve

We looked into a few first ideas:

Mechanical

Iris

Soft robotics

We took different parts of these and created our next prototype

We looked into a few first ideas:

Mechanical

Iris

Soft robotics

We took different parts of these and created our next prototype

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Next is user testing and the design

• We want to test our project with Nico's Grandfather

• We need to hide the cables and tighten the straps



E.L.I.

By: Nico Bellucci and

Gabriel Murray

Exoskeleton for limb independence

Thanks for listening!

Many things cause paralysis

In every group of 100 people, two will be paralyzed. This can be caused by many things some of which are:

• The autoimmune diseases

• Stroke patients

• Cerebral Palsy

• Physical accidents

• and much more

Nico's Grandfather

My grandfather has an autoimmune disease called MS.

It is your autoimmune system attacking your nerves which leads to paralysis, speech difficulty, and vision problems.



A few years ago, I had a school project to make something to help people with medical disabilities. I decided to make an arm prosthetic to give back functionality to his arm and hand. It broke in half. Ever since that project, I have wanted to do a better version of this project, and OI was the perfect opportunity.

Weighted VR

During the start of this summer I brainstormed many ideas. There was one that I really wanted to continue which was creating weight in VR.

I forgot about the idea until the end. I decided to start working on it. I made multiple sketches and decided I would make an exoskeleton that would go against the human body.

While this had a different use case it was the same mechanics!

Arm Prosthetic brings movement to the arm

This project helps people with arm paralysis regain movement and grip. We aim to let them move their arms from the elbow and hold objects with their hands, restoring a sense of independence and confidence in daily life.

Being able to move and grip again helps people feel more in control, boosting their confidence and improving their quality of life.

There were many different hand protoypes

An array of these would vaguely look and function like a hand

This is a prototype of a soft grabber that lifts a variety of things

This mechanism is meant to grab onto bottle caps and other circular objects.

The elbow joint got moved to the shoulder

We want your feedback



Is there anything you think we should take into account?

Is there anything we should add to help the use case?

How would you do the mechanisms.

Thank You!

By Nico, Gabe, Bradley

Enabling the unabled