As a mechanical design engineer, I worked on creating an optimized design of the wearable in order to improve electrode conductivity and user experience.

At the time, Neurowrist used gold cup electrodes: these conductors were poor in conductivity and would fall off with the simplest movements. In order to mitigate this, I conducted extensive research to understand what makes an electrode “good” and used those insights to design and model electrodes suitable for testing.

As this wearable collects EMG signals for pattern recognition, the main purpose of this wearable was to be able to eventually use the electronics + electrodes to robotic prosthetics. (i.e., whenever someone is performing an action, based on brain and muscle signals, that can be replicated through a robotic arm)