There remain several challenges in the further development and commercialization of MRC. Although MRC may work well for close-fitting clothing, it may work less well with loose-fitting clothing whose location over joints shifts as a person moves. This may be addressed by incorporating multiple tubes around joints and using pattern recognition software to identify shifts in clothing location. Another challenge for MRC is calibrating measurements to ensure accuracy for different people (and potentially each time the same person takes it off and puts it on).
Another challenge is maintaining measurement accuracy while making tube size smaller so that the clothing is non-obtrusive. These challenges are not insurmountable, but they will require more work in order to launch MRC as a successful commercial product. Medibotics welcomes inquiries from manufacturers and investors in the fields of computer gaming, sports training, medical technology, and/or telerobotics who may be interested in partnering with Medibotics in the next stage of product development for Motion Recognition Clothing.
Medibotics LLC is an innovative Minnesota-based technology company with an intellectual property portfolio that includes: ambulatory human motion recognition technology (including Motion Recognition Clothing); wearable technology for energy generation from human motion; flexible human-to-computer interface devices (including Blob Mouse), and sound-masking devices and systems for enhancing sleep (including HushBand). The CEO of Medibotics is Robert A. Connor, Ph.D., an inventor on over 40 patents and patent applications.