Arnav Maharshi: FAIR Chance and Active Hand
FAIR Chance and Active Hand — camera-based hand-rehabilitation tools.
A road accident at 14 left Arnav's dominant right side paralysed, and conventional rehabilitation gave him no measurable feedback. FAIR Chance uses a phone or laptop camera and computer vision to score finger and hand movement during everyday tasks such as buttoning; the Active Hand wristband sits on the stronger hand and vibrates gently to discourage over-reliance on it. Both were in small trials by late 2025. He received the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar in December 2025.
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Recognition
PM Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2025.
What this means for a student inventor in India
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