Superhuman Lab

80% had never written firmware. AI closed the gap.

First-time hardware builders leaned on Claude all weekend: generating sensor drivers, debugging servo jitter, wiring AI vision into kitchen glasses and LLM logic into Braille keyboards. Sessions ran throughout both days:

• → Using Claude optimally with Projects and Cowork
• → Designing better with Claude Design
• → Claude in the terminal: hacking on hardware equipment
• → Claude as an intern and thinking partner: ideating beyond your first idea
• → A live build: ClawdCat, an orange companion cat built from scratch: designed in CAD, 3D printed, fitted with LEDs and a servo motor. My first time learning and doing every step of it.

Duo: the companion that makes rehab a game

A recreational companion robot for people with limited mobility, whether from temporary injuries, stroke, spinal injuries or ageing. Duo hosts rehab exercises, goals, music and multiplayer quests, flipping the mental model from "let's do ankle rehab today" to "hey, can you keep up with me for the next 10 minutes?"

their thesis, verbatim: play transcends ability.

Vinayak Kempawad · Ankit Kumar · Sanjay Rohith · Abhishek Raj

WeCooked: ask the kitchen a question, hear the answer

A 25-gram camera attachment for ordinary glasses that lets visually impaired cooks work independently: AI vision reads the scene and answers through one earbud in under 3 seconds. No buttons, because hands in a kitchen are wet, greasy or holding a pan. Mid-hack their camera ribbon connector physically snapped; they pivoted the phone into camera-mic-hotspot duty and the design survived. Danger alerts announce themselves, and a link-loss watchdog fails loud, never silent.

Wheely: the wheelchair that plays like a game

A navigation game a kid in a wheelchair steers themselves, collecting blocks the way other kids collect Pokémon, so learning to operate the chair is fun rather than something that marks them out as different. Next on the roadmap: a tilt-prediction safety layer (ESP32 + gyro) that projects where a lean is headed and buys back the under-a-second warning window before a tip, with voice and vibration only. Nothing to look at mid-fall.

The youngest hacker in the room was eight.

Lakshveer, 8 years old, and teammates Vamsi, Adarsh and Dhruva took on a problem most adults skipped: people with hand disabilities can't use standard game controllers, so they can't play computer games independently. Team Laksh set out to bring the joy of gaming back. He spent day two building a gaming controller operated with feet.

bringing joy to people with hand disabilities ✌

Aalu, the self-learning Braille keyboard

A low-cost 9-key Braille keyboard with three modes: typing, adaptive learning drills with spoken feedback, and an LLM wired to computer actions. Affordable hardware, Braille literacy and an AI assistant in one yellow box.

ECHO

Smart glasses that give blind and low-vision users the social context a conversation assumes (who entered, who is speaking, what the gesture meant) through brief earcons and whispered cues that never interrupt.

Gati: the rolling bridge

A portable, rollable ramp carried on the wheelchair itself: unclip, unroll across the metro platform gap, ride over, roll it back up. No electronics, no lifting, no waiting.

Unbound, the AI glasses companion

A clip-on AI module for the glasses you already own: a tiny front-facing camera sees what the user sees, on-device AI runs OCR and object detection, and a bone-conduction earpiece speaks the result in real time. Menus, intersections, crowded hallways, all without the cloud.

Netra, the change detector

Blind users know their own homes, until someone moves a chair. Team Matrix’s knee-worn ultrasonic band compares the room against a 3D map and only speaks up when something has changed.

Want to be there at the next Superhuman Lab?

It's happening at Calicut on Oct 3rd + 4th.