Sunday, 23 August 2015

Boy, nine, fitted with first prosthetic hand that can change grip with gestures

Boy, nine, fitted with first prosthetic hand that can change grip with gestures

A nine-year-old boy, born with his right arm missing from the elbow, can build Lego, eat with a knife and fork and pull up his trousers for the first time thanks to a new bionic hand. Josh Cathcart, who was bullied because of his disability, declared his new limb “awesome” and could not wait to show it to his school friends, after becoming the first child in the UK to be fitted with the i-limb quantum, a special child-sized hand.
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