About Us

Mission - With the aim to provide access to the best and India’s first fully functional Bionic Hand to upper limb amputations from a quantum of over 40 million people in need of prosthetics at an affordable price keeping the economic challenges from the developing world in mind.

Driven by a vision - To cater the needs and resume the daily routine of Indian & Global disabled population with an Indian alternative to serve and democratize the assistive-technology industry, a team of 23 social and tech enthusiasts came together to form Makers Hive.

The HOW? - Inspired by Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, Former President of India, whose motifs helped direct our acumen towards building cutting-edge assistive technologies to solve contemporary social problems of the populace in the developing nations like India.

The WHY? - Makers Hive is born to leverage the gap in the assistive-tech industry, especially Prosthetics, and build health-tech devices to turn the people with amputations from disabled to futuristically abled and from being a thing of pity to a source of envy.

The WHAT? - Makers Hive has made it possible to bring the people with amputations together by developing a fully functional, customizable*, and mobile app enabled Bionic Hand - KalArm®, named after Dr. Kalam as a homage, to address the problems of 40 million people globally, of which India alone holding about 6 million in need of prosthetic assistance.

We Dared to Dream; We Strive to Succeed!

Numbers speak

29

Team Members

28

Months Of Journey

13

   IPRs

03

Versions Of Hand

KalArm®  in Action

Affordable Aide from Future: KalArm®

“Create, Improvise, Adapt”

We present to you, KalArm®! The India’s first fully functional Bionic Hand, with 18 pre-defined grips and bespoke aesthetics. Designed and Developed in Hyderabad, India, KalArm® is a 3D-printed, EMG sensors embedded, lightweight and affordable bionic hand, targeted at both National and Global markets of persons with upper-limb below-elbow amputations that can give India an edge to become globally competitive in the Prosthesis Industry.

KalArm® is made available in 3 different palm sizes: Small, Medium, and Large with forearm sockets varying from user to user alongside the option to customize colours of outer shells/panels to user’s own liking.

We, at Makers Hive, believe Health-Tech does not need to be reformed, it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize but to personalize the prosthetics sector and KalArm® – a disruptive product for the genesis of a new era - is our solution.

Kal-Sapiens

With the mission to enhance human potential and deliver the first generation of Kal- Sapiens for a better tomorrow by passing baton from being disabled to become futuristically abled.

Product Features

Smart
Battery

Easy rechargeable on-fit battery. Percentage of charge can be viewed in the mobile application.

Firmware
Update

No more queuing up for updates, we bring you Over-the-Air device updates.

Agility

Our product equips the user with a capability to lift up-to 8 Kgs of weight effortlessly.

18 pre-defined
grips

A diverse range of gripping positions to equip user with unhindered agility.

Multiple
Modes

Offers 4 modes: Office Mode, Kitchen Mode, Sports Mode, Lite Mode.

Custom
Panels

Users can now opt from plethora of interchangable panels.

Performance
Monitor

Monitors the health of the device, functioning of the sensors and motor interface through the mobile application.

Android
Supported

Through our mobile application, we provide a better user experience.

Our team

PRANAV VEMPATI

Founder, CEO

HARSHA

Director

SUREN

Director

CHANAKYA GONE

CTO

Vijay

Director

SAI PRASAD

Director

SRI RAVINDRA TANGIRALA

Advisor

SANJAY GOOTY

SVP- Marketing & Strategy
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Patronage

Dr T Ramasami

“Home grown innovations or inventions are what we need to make the nation globally competitive and I appreciate the Makers Hive team for serving the means to an end.”

Mr. David Riemer

“Of all the start-ups that I’d visited, Makers Hive stood out to be the coolest by far and request the team to keep up the artistic culture of innovation and creativity at the workplace.”

Dr Soumya Swaminathan

“Appreciate Makers Hive team for addressing the affordability concern of health-tech devices offering cutting-edge features and devising a product by understanding economic challenges of the developing world.”

Mr. Venkaiah Naidu

“It’s great to see a team of young minds coming together to solve social problems and bringing entrepreneurial spirit for the development of nation.”

User Testimonials

I was blown away by the responsiveness of the Makers Hive team when I approached them for their Bionic hand. While trying it on , I was surprised to see how light the product is. I started to realize that I could do some everyday activities on which I had already lost hope. I can’t thank kal Bionics enough for this opportunity!
Ravi Bonka
I feel more confident with the KalArm.Its the simple activities that could end up becoming biggest obstacles.Thanks to Makers Hive offering multiple grip patterns I can now use various modes with ease to cater my daily needs.
Sridhar
The reaction I get when I wear it is so different to what I was used to with my old prosthetics, which at times I used to cover up and hide away. Now, when I wear KalArm, I want to show it off and people around me go crazy getting curious to understand how it works.
Srinivas