Horseshoe Valley native entrepreneur Maya Burhanpurkar has won gold in the Harvard College i3 Innovation Challenge
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BARRIE TODAY
Entrepreneur Name: Maya Burhanpurkar, (Age: 21)
Business Name: Adventus Robotics, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Burhanpurkar’s winning start-up, Adventus Robotics, operates at the cutting edge of artifical intelligence-based, self-driving technology for wheelchairs.
“I had worked on the wheelchair at University of Toronto and continued it here,” she said. “I do have experience with relatives in wheelchairs and see how difficult it can be to move in them, particularly when there are nerve issues.”
