BabyBe
A soft robotic bionic Mattress to reconnect mothers with their premature babies.
For the youngest and tiniest patients in hospitals across the world, the first few weeks and months of life on Earth can be a stressful experience. Kept inside incubators, premature babies are delicate and susceptible to infection. They are also separated from their mothers. Physical interaction between mother and baby during this time is very limited. BabyBe, a company from Chile aims to help change this. It wants to shorten hospital stays for premature babies and make women feel actively like mothers from the moment their babies are born. To do this it has created a system that measures the movement of the mother's lungs and heartbeat and transforms it into a sensory experience for the baby, reducing the stress they feel and aiding their development and early memories.