Simone Braunstein is Founder of Paradox Robotics and a student at Harvard University. She hails originally from NYC.

Braunstein is a Freshman at Harvard University, where she majors in Mechanical Engineering. She attended Dalton School.

As a high school student, Braunstein created an Haptic glove to provide surgeons with an improved sense of touch that can better guide them through robotic-assisted surgery, potentially increasing the number of patients who might be candidates for these kinds of procedures.

Braunstein is the Founder of Paradox Robotics, a company that sells turnkey soft robotics supply kits, advancing the emerging field by saving researchers and developers the time and resources it takes to source these critical, hard-to-find parts themselves.

Braunstein got the idea from watching her grandmother’s difficult recovery from invasive, traditional heart surgery.

“A low percentage of procedures use minimally invasive robotics surgery technology,” says Braunstein.

“If robotic surgery could be tailored to additional surgical procedures successfully, thousands more lives each year might be saved.”

Her clientele includes Cornell University, Texas A&M, and Oculus which is a known virtual-reality headset maker brand.