Why it's important
Our mission combats speech disabilities and/or discomfort for 1B+ people resulting from a whole array of conditions:
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laryngeal cancer, laryngectomy,
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stroke,
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cerebral palsy (CP),
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multiple sclerosis (MS),
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spinal muscular atrophy (SMA),
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amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),
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down syndrome,
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Parkinson's disease, myasthenia gravis,
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sulcus vocalis,*
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presbyopia and fold flaccidity (vocal aging),**
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voice dysphoria of transgender individuals.***
UHURA BIONICS: WE HEAR YOU.
136M
people globally struggle with atypical speech and speech disorders.*
883M
people aged 65+ struggle or will soon struggle with an ageing voice (presbyphony and fold flaccidity).**
28M
voice dysphoria of transgender individuals.***
Our Team
Konrad Zieliński
CEO, UX, PhD candidate
MS in Cognitive Science UW, researcher in Human Interactivity and Language Lab.
Strong leadership skills, academic background in user experience, and programming professional experience.
Anna Ciesielska
COO, marketing & finances
MBA Lecturer, business consultant, mentor and entrepreneur.
Excellent operation and team building skills, experienced in marketing, graduated from economy, management and transactional analysis.
Marek Grzelec
CTO, product designer, maker
Professional experience in Makerspace@UW
Expert at 3D printing and rapid prototyping.
Responsible for every prototype in Uhura, manages the technological team. Studied mechatronics at the Warsaw University of Technology.
Grzegorz Mika
AI Engineer
Doris Żodkiewicz
Speech therapist
Gabi Kołtun
Vocal instructor
Janek Jurkowski
Embedded programmer
Mikij Żewierżejew
Audio engineer
Ula Kłopotowska
Medical technology
Advisory Board
The advisory board includes representatives from the international business community, including, including Pedro Oliveira, dean of the Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, as well as Dr. Jeremy Richmon of Mass Eye & Ear and Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical School, one of the pioneers of transoral thyroid surgery thyroid surgery (he performed it as the world's first through interdisciplinary collaboration with roboticists). The presence on the Advisory Board in the immediate vicinity of the Project and in the company of individuals who are at the world's forefront of innovation implementation underscores the potential for further development of the Project and Uhura Bionics in this area.
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Pedro Oliveira Professor
Dean Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE)
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Jeremy D. Richmon MD
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Dr Thomas Moors MD DOHNS
(ENT doctor)
Dr.-Ing. Marek Chodnicki
Mechatronics, robotics, construction and operation of machines
Dr.-Ing. Martin Hagmuller
Senior Researcher, Audio expert
Pedro Costa
Acoustics Engineer, Founder and CEO, Auricle
prof. Agnieszka Hamerlińska (SLP)
University professor, psychologist, neurologist, educator, psycho-oncologist, oncologist
Wojciech Kukwa MD (ENT doctor)
Head of Otolaryngology Department, Medical University of Warsaw
Contact us!
We hear You.
Our partners
We proudly present our partners at Uhura! In this space, we highlight the valued collaborations and relationships that drive our mission forward. Discover the diverse network of partners who contribute to our shared goals and success. Join us on this journey as we celebrate teamwork, innovation, and synergy.
STARTUP HEROES - a starting platform for new ideas
We received expert business support and developed our idea into a scaled business model. As part of the incubation process, we received legal, financial, marketing and business support. This gave us the opportunity to acquire the necessary knowledge, expert support and financing, which significantly accelerated our development.
Legal support for startups
Legal support for startups is to finance legal support for startups cooperating with investors and recipients of their services.
Finished Grants
ARTICLE
Gazeta.pl
Konrad doesn't have a larynx. "People feel awkward saying: 'Speak more clearly,' 'Don't mumble.'"
ARTICLE
Newsweek
When the larynx disappears, not only does the voice itself disappear, but also the ability to convey one's emotions to the other person: urgency, anger, resentment, grief, tenderness.
Media about us
Adrianna Biernacka-Gemel and Konrad Zielinski in Polish Ethnography
The body - foreign, causal, creative. On the experience of laryngectomy.
ACM CHI, New Orlean, USA.
Konrad Zielinski at the ACM CHI (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) conference in New Orleans.
Our Publications
Who are we?
Uhura Bionics is a startup bootstrapped by its own and with EU funding. Boasting a comprehensive interdisciplinary team and a product continually tested with users, we’ve achieved promising early market validation.
We are currently in the process of securing a seed round. For a detailed financial analysis and a full offering, write directly to our CEO at konrad@uhura.pl.
We envision collaboration with investors experienced in global products in hardware, AI, healthcare, rehabilitation and audio technologies.