This Chennai-based startup NeoMotion help physically challenged people - Swostik Sourav Dash

     Swostik Sourav Dash is the Founder of NeoMotion. The startup creates life transformative products for the physically challenged and the elderly. He is from Chennai, India.

NEOMOTION:- https://www.neomotion.in/

EDUCATION

     Swostik earned his Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He also completed Masters of Technology in Product Design from the same Institute.

HONORS

• He featured in YourStory as an entrepreneur

ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY

    During Swostik's Masters, He worked on many projects which revolved around developing assistive solutions to empower the physically disabled, and they helped him understand the problems that people with disabilities face. 

    While researching those projects, He spoke to many wheelchair users around the nation and learned that only a very few people with disabilities can go outdoors and be independent. Most of them needed the help of another person to use the wheelchair. 

     Swostik graduated in 2013 but kept working closely with projects in IIT. Finally, in 2016, along with Sujatha Srinivasan, the founder of the Rehabilitation Research and Devise development lab at IIT-M who has been working in the assistive devices space for over 25 years, he started NeoMotion.

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     The product development has been supported by the TTK center for Rehabilitation Research and Device Development and imprints the India program of the government of India. They also received seed funding from IITM incubation cell and Villgro.

     NeoFly is a wheelchair that can be personalized to each individual's requirements. From adjusting its height and width to the kind of wheels, and even color, NeoFly can be adjusted in 18 various ways to fit each person's body and environment. Every NeoFly wheelchair is customized. The customization happens remotely. 

    First, the user would have to take measurements of their body based on tutorial videos. This is to ensure the correct dimensions. Second, they have to answer a structured questionnaire about their health, medical conditions, and the environment they live in. This helps a team to understand their requirements better.  Finally, NeoMotion's team send them a visual representation of the wheelchair along with detailed specifications, after which they finalize the order.