Your brain controls your body—with this basic concept, a Bengaluru based startup called
Xeuron.ai is developing active intelligent footwear and virtual reality cognitive games as a solution for urban burnout and disease management.
A lady got diabetes in her mid-30s and by the time she reached her early 40s, it started affecting her retina, teeth, and slowly each part of her body. This prompted her bioengineer son, Siddharth Nair, to innovate a non-invasive neural modulation system, which helped her walk again.
From here started a journey to develop intelligent connected systems to monitor and predict the risk of neurodegeneration. Siddharth established Xeuron.ai in mid-2019 but started working on it seriously only after the pandemic had hit.
The founder says, “The initial idea was to just develop smart footwear and insoles consisting of embedded sensors and then do a lot of things. But then, with all the emerging technology and the need for adaptability to the user, it all came to a point of business sustainability.
Hence, we migrated to semi-immersive virtual reality (semi-VR) to start with, and the smart footwear that we are developing would help build the whole ecosystem.”
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