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.

Deliverables:

  • Mechanical Engineering

  • Embedded Systems Design

  • Electrical Engineering

  • Visual Design

  • UXUI

  • FDA & Regulatory

64,8k

Hours worked

120+

Contributors

13

Prototypes

$4.8m

$10.2m

30k

Manufacturing
spend

R&D spend

Units shipped

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.

Currently, 10X is designing a portable version of Spiro Mini. This device is geared toward the needs of EMTs and mobile care. Automating ventilation during emergency medical transportation frees up human resources to take care of patients and deliver more consistent and precise ventilation that will improve patient outcomes.  

Emergency Ventilator Response Team

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.

Otherlab is an independent research and design lab whose team helped to drive and coordinate much of the critical engineering processes among partners working all across the country.

In collaboration with and special thanks to: