How EMBRACE Began

EMBRACE began as a Siemens-sponsored senior design capstone project through UC Irvine’s Biomedical Engineering program. The original project concept explored adaptive prosthetic control through biosignal processing and machine learning.

As our interdisciplinary team of biomedical engineering and computer science students formed, we brought together expertise in hardware design, signal acquisition, controls, and machine learning to refine the concept into a practical solution. This collaboration ultimately shaped EMBRACE into a portable EMG-controlled prosthetic system designed for intuitive and accessible upper-limb assistance.