Unlimited Tomorrow

Unlimited Tomorrow was an Rhinebeck-based[1] American company that manufactured low-cost, high-quality robotic limbs.[2] The low-cost prosthetic effort was started by Easton LaChappelle, an entrepreneur who founded Unlimited Tomorrow when he was 17.[3] LaChappelle eventually met author/business strategist Tony Robbins, who gave him the initial starting capital to create Unlimited Tomorrow in 2014.[4]

The company ran a crowdfunding campaign in 2018 and it raised $1.6 million from 1,200 investors in 30 days.[5]

TrueLimb is a bionic arm[6] and it was launched in 2020.[7] The prosthetic is controlled using muscles within the residual limb.[8] The arms were made with dozens of sensors, an Arm M4 processor and rigid skin produced on a 3D printer.[9] The prosthetic arm can be 3D scanned, match the other arm identically, and comes in 150 different skin tones.[10] A traditional device can cost up to $80,000 but a TrueLimb costs $8,000, largely because there's no middleman involved.[11]

In 2022-2023, the company helped raise nearly $370,000 on GoFundMe to provide upper-limb prostheses to Ukrainians.[12]

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  2. "This U.S. Company manufactures low-cost, high-quality robotic limbs for victims of the Ukraine-Russia war". CNBC.
  3. "Stratasys, Dassault, Unlimited Tomorrow team up to scale low-cost 3D printed prosthetics". ZDNet.
  4. "Easton LaChappelle Creates Products for Amputees—Without Raising the Price". 3 September 2020.
  5. "Unlimited Tomorrow Cracks the Code on Robotic Arm Prosthetics". Forbes.
  6. "The 3D-printed bionic arm that is disrupting the prosthetics industry".
  7. "Opinion | the ironic challenge amputees like me are facing". NBC News.
  8. "This young entrepreneur skipped college to create robotic limbs that users can control with their minds". 31 August 2020.
  9. https://www.fierceelectronics.com/electronics/unlimited-tomorrow-making-plans-for-prosthetics-needs-globally
  10. "This might be the most customizable and affordable prosthetic arm yet — Future Blink". Mashable. 8 February 2022.
  11. "TrueLimb robotic arms look real and cost less than traditional prosthetics".
  12. "How You Can Support Ukraine's War Amputees". 22 February 2023.

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