Digital solutions that can improve people’s lives were presented at the NURIS hardware Challenge competition in the capital. These are the best know-how of startups - participants of the innovation cluster of Nazarbayev University. The development of digital products by young inventors lasted two months. It was held on the basis of the digital prototyping laboratory. As a result, about 50 best projects were selected. Among them are devices that are designed to keep children and animals safe, as well as various digital tools and structures needed to replace lost body parts, such as a bionic prosthetic hand, which does not have any analogues in Kazakhstan. The total prize fund of the competition amounted to 2.2 million tenge (US$5,127).
“This prosthesis receives signals from the muscles through electrodes and repeats the movements of the human hand. We hope that in the future we will be able to produce this prosthesis on an industrial scale and provide Kazakhstan with bionic prostheses,” said Almat Duissenbayev, Project Author.
“We invited representatives of about 120 companies. Mostly there are private organizations. We invited them to help our startups commercialize their product and fund it. Now, as you can see here, the demand for such digital developments is very high,” said Zarina Kutpanova, an organizer.
Translation and editing by Saule Mukhamejanova
