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BioEnginuity Impact Grant Recipient, Daniel Lim, Awarded Design Master Prize

Current research in prosthetic hand design faces a big challenge: it's very expensive to customize prosthetic hands to fit each user's specific needs. In the U.S., there are over 541,000 people who have lost part of their upper limbs, and 78% of these cases involve partial hand or finger amputations. Daniel Lim's project, EXODIA, aims to solve this problem by using a data-driven approach to create modular prosthetic hands, which can be easily adjusted without needing as much input from human designers.
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Berkeley Innovation and Entrepreneurship Office and Bakar Climate Labs Announce the Berkeley Climate Action Proof-of-Concept Program

A new program has launched through the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub's sister incubator for climate technology, the Bakar ClimatEnginuity Hub. This program, called "BCAPP" will support faculty in translating their research into real-world solutions. Read post
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The Bakar BioEnginuity Hub: Architect Magazine

Bakar BioEnginuity Hub transforms a historically-significant building on the University of California, Berkeley campus from a structurally-deficient inoperable space into a modern coworking life science lab facility designed to LEED Gold standards. The design, which includes a glass-fronted addition and two new public plazas, modernizes the former Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive designed by Mario Ciampi to today’s standards while honoring the building’s original brutalist design intent. Read post