Spiro Wave
Rapid response to a ventilator crisis.
As COVID-19 cases in NYC continued to quickly amass, 10XBETA was invited to join the Emergency Ventilator Response team—a consortium formed to provide solutions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. With manufacturability, scalability, and timeline in mind, 10X worked at lightning speed to design, test, and produce Spiro Wave in one month.
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Spiro Wave is a low-cost, automatic resuscitator that helps hospitals expand their capacity to care for patients with critical ventilation needs in the context of a high-stress environment.
The device is able to be manufactured quickly, at scale, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional ventilators.
A multidisciplinary design effort
The 10XBETA team developed the device from the ground up, working across mechanical, electrical, and embedded systems engineering and industrial, UX/UI, and visual design disciplines.
Strategic supply chain design
Working in close proximity to Boyce Technologies meant 10X could quickly prototype, test and iterate the design within an accelerated time frame. Spiro Waves’s smart design and consideration of supply chain pressures allows it to be quickly produced to address immediate shortages and bolster emergency stockpiles in the future
Collaborators
A vertically integrated Venture Studio leading the team of engineers and designers that iterated upon MIT’s E-Vent design, working through a design-for-manufacturing process to create a solution that can be rapidly produced at scale.
Newlab has spearheaded the formation of the consortium, bringing together key strategic stakeholders and leading the rapid collaboration required to respond to the crisis.
Boyce Technologies has provided the design-for-manufacturing expertise required to prepare the design for production at scale and will lead production efforts at their Long Island City, Queens factory.
