Amos Winter and Tish Scolnik testing the Leveraged Freedom Chair in Tanzania
The mission of the MIT Mobility Lab (M-Lab) is to fill a niche in the mobility aid community; NGOs and manufacturers in developing countries often do not have the time, resources, and skills to develop high-risk/high-payoff projects that would make drastic improvements to mobility products and the lives of disabled people. By collaborating with local manufacturers and experts from the developed world, M-Lab students use their ingenuity and science/engineering skills to produce technology that can mobilize millions of disabled persons worldwide. Furthermore, M-Lab programs teach MIT students how their technological abilities can be used to improve the lives of others.
Leveraged FreedomThe new Leveraged Freedom Chair website. |
Recent AwardsM-Lab is excited to be a recipient of $50k from the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) |
ProjectsInterested in posting your own international development projects? Email mlab-web (at) mit (dot) edu. |