About Seán Barrett

Seán Barrett is a robotics founder and engineer from Cork, Ireland, and co-founder of ReAble Labs.

Seán Barrett is a founder and engineer from Cork. He is co-founder, CEO and CTO of ReAble Labs, a robotics company in Cork whose first product is a €5,000 myoelectric prosthetic hand. He won the Hult Prize Irish National Final and the AIB Student Impact Award in 2026, and studies Electrical and Electronic Engineering at UCC.

Seán Barrett is a founder and engineer from Cork, Ireland. He is co-founder, CEO and CTO of ReAble Labs, a robotics company based in Cork, which he started with William Hartley in September 2025. ReAble Labs' first product is Diego, a myoelectric prosthetic hand priced at €5,000, with a patent filed. Barrett does all of the company's engineering: mechanical design, electronics, PCB design, firmware and machine learning. In 2026 ReAble Labs won the Hult Prize Irish National Final, and Barrett won the AIB Student Impact Award for Enterprise and Innovation. The team then reached the top 21, out of roughly 18,000, at the Hult Prize Global Accelerator in London. He is lead author of a preprint on surface EMG grasp decoding. Barrett studies Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University College Cork, where he helps run the Hult Prize campus programme.

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