7 years ago, Hungarian György Lévay overcame a devastating meningitis infection, which resulted in the loss of both of his hands. After one and a half years of burdening recovery, he decided he wants to make limb prostheses better. The engineer, computer specialist, and avid gamer was awarded a scholarship to Johns Hopkins University where he helped design a hands-free control system, GEAR, that’s worn like a pair of sandals and allows users to execute more than 15 commands with their feet. Currently, he’s working on how to advance prostheses for upper-limb loss through machine learning algorithms...
