These Bay Area technology innovators are taking mobility, 3D printing to the next level

TECHNOLOGY SUCH AS artificial intelligence, 3D printing, robotics, and assistive devices when first introduced are often cast as either modern day villains or heroes. The truth is, advanced products and services in the tech sector are typically agnostic. In themselves, they carry no implicit morality and yet, depending on the creator, user or application, they hold the potential to become ground-breaking and helpful in serving people with specific needs or advancements in a science or other application.

Deliberately searching for companies and people using, developing, and sharing innovative products with new technologies to benefit human beings, we focused on two operations. San Francisco-based CIONIC and the SpaceCAL initiative at University of California, Berkeley, provide real life models.