This is Nigerian Robotics Engineer, Kemisola Bolarinwa who invented a life saving smart bra that helps to detect breast cancer on time and save lives globally.
Bolarinwa
From a very young age, Kemisola Bolarinwa has been an innovator. She still recalls the joy of her first eureka moment in high school when together with a friend, they created the transistor radio for the inter-school competition.
After secondary school, Bolarinwa studied Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of Ado-Ekiti; the Self-driven innovations are primarily self-taught.
Bolarinwa’s interest in Cancer prevention and treatment was born from an emotional event. In 2017 she lost one of her favourite aunts to breast cancer.
In 2019, Bolarinwa teamed up with a femwear expert, an IT expert, an embedding hardware expert, an AI expert, a software developer, and an oncologist. Together, they embarked on a journey to find a solution to the late detection of breast cancer.
In 2021, Kemisola and her team came up with a working prototype of a smart bra which has sensors to scan the breast for abnormalities.
Kemisola is the Founder of Nextwear Technologies.
video credit: BBC
