Wearable Systems
Multisensor systems that noninvasively capture biosignals and biomarkers, engineered for continuous wear outside a lab.
Medical device engineering · Ideation to MVP
Harnessing the Power of Passion Into Purposeful Innovation
We help transform early-stage ideas into reliable, real-world products — designing, prototyping, and refining advanced technical solutions that bridge concept, engineering, and practical innovation.
Trained at
- UMBC
- Johns Hopkins
- UC Irvine
- Michigan
- Northwestern
Experience at
- Google X
- Walter Reed
- George Mason
- JuneBrain
- UNC–Chapel Hill
An engineering firm for the stretch between a good idea and a working device.
RNS supports early-stage medical device startups from ideation through MVP. We are three doctoral-trained engineers who have spent our careers building wearables, robotics, and sensing systems that leave the bench and survive contact with real people.
Capabilities
Four disciplines, practiced together rather than handed between specialists.
Robotics & Mechatronics
Wearable robotic and prosthetic devices — actuation, kinematics, and human-machine interaction for people with neurological injury or limb loss.
Embedded & Sensing
Firmware, low-power design, and sensor integration built to hold their accuracy in the field, not just on the bench.
AI & Signal Processing
Models that turn raw biosignals into clinically meaningful estimates, from biomarker extraction to continuous physiological monitoring.
How to begin working with us
Every engagement runs the same five stages. You can enter at any one of them.
Ideation
We pressure-test the concept against physics, regulatory reality, and the people who will actually wear it.
Design
Mechanics, electronics, and firmware specified together, so the trade-offs surface early instead of at integration.
Prototype
Working hardware in hand quickly — a device that exists teaches you more than a document describing one.
Validation
Bench and human-subject testing to prove the device does what you intend to claim it does.
MVP
Hardware ready to demo to investors, take to regulators, or put in front of your first users.
Selected work
Research and ventures the RNS founders designed, built, and shipped.
Fig. 01 Fig. 05
Sparkwear
Patented wearable technology for safer interpersonal interaction in physical spaces — taken from concept to a venture with a granted patent.
Fig. 02Continuous Blood Pressure Estimation
A novel multisensor wearable that noninvasively collects a suite of biosignals and biomarkers, paired with AI models for continuous blood pressure estimation.
Fig. 03Hand Rehabilitation Robotics
Wearable robotic devices supporting hand recovery after stroke — from mechanism design through clinical application and real-world usage.
Fig. 04Knee Characterization for Wearable Robots
Identifying the mechanical properties of the human knee so they can be recreated in prosthetics and exoskeletons — giving wearable robots human-like behavior.
Client engagements
Reserved for RNS client case studies, pending disclosure approval.
The team
Three engineers who met at UMBC, went on to doctorates at Johns Hopkins, UC Irvine, and Michigan, and have built medical devices ever since.
Have an idea that needs to become hardware?
Tell us what you are building. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right team for it — and what it will take to get to a working prototype.
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