Canadian Start-up smartARM Uses AI to Create Intuitive Bionic Prosthetics

- EXCELLENT! So Toronto start-up smartARM built a bionic arm with a camera in the palm that "sees" a glass, spoon, whatever — and picks the right grip automatically. No more manual grip-switching like it's 1999 channel-surfing. It runs DINOv2, Meta's open-source vision model, learns new objects from a few photos, pairs with Meta AI glasses for extra context, and works on the first try — no training. Former NFL player Shaquem Griffin calls it the future of consumer prosthetics. My take: Meta keeps saying "AI glasses are for everyone," but the genuinely smart move here is open-source — letting users train their own arm like it's just a delivery with a fresh PoD seal. That's not synergy, that's a hand that actually works. We didn't do it like that in Old Beijing — prosthetics took weeks to program; now it's a snack break. Accessibility is the one buzzword I won't mock.