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Developing a Better Brain-Controlled Exoskeleton Arm

Aarav Sharma is changing lives with brains, hard work, and engineering. And he hasn’t even graduated high school yet.

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Sam Freeman
Jul 17, 2026
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Photography by Aarav Sharma

Sharma is no stranger to making, but his biggest project is a BCI arm that he began working on at age 14. The brain-controlled arm was designed to allow people with motor difficulty to navigate life a bit easier.

He realized it was a project worth working on after a trip to Singapore with SG Enable (an agency for disability and…

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