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Meet the Team: Jesse Cornman, Director of Engineering

Meet Jesse, one of the longest tenured PSYONIC employees. He's been with us since before we were even a company! In this interview, Jesse explains how he got started at PSYONIC and what he loves most about working here.

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Meet the Team: James Austin, Lead Mechanical Engineer

“Imagination. Creativity. Attention to detail. Ability to multitask. And passion for the work.” Meet our lead mechanical engineer, James Austin, and find out why he says these are the skills required to do his job well.

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5 Questions with PSYONIC Founder & CEO Aadeel Akhtar

Catch up with PSYONIC Founder & CEO, Dr. Aadeel Ahktar, as he answers questions about his inspiration and commitment to making bionic limbs more affordable and accessible, where the market potential exists for PSYONIC product innovations, and his vision for the future of the company.

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Why we built a bionics company

Our journey to #RedefineHuman started with a seven year old boy’s dream to improve the lives of people with limb differences. Learn the story behind PSYONIC and how our founder and CEO, Aadeel Akhtar was inspired to build a revolutionary bionics company that would make the best prosthetic technologies available and accessible to anyone who needs them.

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PSYONIC moving headquarters to San Diego, California

12 years ago Whitney Akhtar and I moved from Chicago to Champaign so that I could start an MD/PhD program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Thinking we would be here for 8 years before I started residency, we decided to buy a house a year in. If there is one thing I've learned, it has been that it is impossible to predict the future.

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CNBC: Going Bionic

CNBC covered PSYONIC as part of its “Miracles in the Works” series on The News with Shepard Smith. They talked to Sgt. Garrett Anderson and CEO Dr. Aadeel Akhtar about the Ability Hand’s unique touch feedback, calling it “vibrations to restore sensations” to “more fully merge man and machine.”

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Bionic hand offers strength, sense of touch

WGN met up with CEO Dr. Aadeel Akhtar and user Dan St. Pierre to get a look at just what the Ability Hand can do. “Once you start doing it, it becomes second nature,” St. Pierre said.

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“True Value to Customers”

In a recent review of the Ability Hand, Bionics for Everyone said: “One of the things we really like about...PSYONIC is their focus on features that truly matter to bionic hand users, such as durability, weight, responsiveness (i.e. closing speed), sensory feedback, water/dust resistance, and of course price.

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Startup building a better bionic hand

CHICAGO INNO named PSYONIC one its “12 Chicago Moonshot Startups” back in 2019 — calling us “a company that's taking a big, ambitious swing at solving hard, complex problems. And if successful, the startup's work could have massive impacts on our society and how we live.” Today, they covered our national launch.

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National Launch Date Announced: September 1, 2021

The PSYONIC Ability Hand will be available to users and clinicians nationwide on September 1, 2021. It's the world's fastest and first touch-sensitive bionic hand, and it's going to help people unleash the very best in themselves.

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Ability Hand covered on Scripps Company TV stations nationwide

Reporter Ash-har Quraishi visited Champaign to find out more about the Ability Hand and how it helps users unlock their PSYONIC ability. The story ran on local television newscasts all over the country this week. Check it out on WMAR-2 News Baltimore.

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