Details

Last Funding Type

Grant

Last Funding Money Raised

$177.42K

Industries

Consumer Electronics,Video Games,Wearables

Founded date

Jan 1, 2011

Number Of Employee

1 - 10

Operating Status

Active

Reach bionics is a Los Angeles-based corporation, founded in 2011. The company was formed to develop and commercialize a revolutionary proprietary controller technology.

Reach Bionics Inc. is developing technology that repurposes signals from a vestigial muscle system around the ears to provide the brain a new mode of command output that can be wirelessly applied to any target device. The ear muscles, or peri-auricular muscles, are part of a vestigial human system that evolved to orient the ears towards sounds. While this muscular system is no longer functionally significant in humans, the muscles remain in nearly everyone and provide an untapped human output.

Higher primates have not needed these muscles for millions of years, yet they exist in nearly everyone. Because this system of muscles originally evolved to focus, or “point”, the ears towards sounds, it has the potential to serve as an innate and intuitive way to direct a computer cursor, operate electronics, or drive a motorized wheelchair.