From Lego hand in Syria to AI prosthetic in Canada: Ahmed Ibrahim's journey
Ahmed Ibrahim is developing an innovative AI-driven prosthetic hand aimed at enhancing user accessibility and control. Inspired by a childhood passion, he aspires to offer personalized fitting through advanced technology. His startup, Better Bionics, integrates cutting-edge AI and 3D printing, facilitated by a collaboration with Hamilton Health Sciences for prototype testing. Plans are underway…
Ahmed Ibrahim, now a 25-year-old innovator in Canada, has built upon a childhood experiment to develop an advanced AI-powered prosthetic hand. At the age of 10, living in Syria and witnessing violence, he tried to create a prosthetic hand using Lego blocks and motors from a remote-control helicopter to help his friend who had lost a hand in a bombing.
The homemade device failed, but the experience inspired Ibrahim to pursue a career in prosthetics. After moving to Canada and pursuing a master's degree in neuroscience and biomedicine, Ibrahim founded Better Bionics to develop a more advanced and accessible prosthetic technology. His AI-powered hand uses sensors, muscle signals, and machine learning to enable 20 different movements, adapting to individual user's movement patterns and providing a more natural and functional device.
Better Bionics aims to make advanced prosthetics more affordable by reducing the time and manual effort needed to produce customised devices through AI-guided design and 3D printing.
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