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szdaily -> Tech and Science -> 
Teen without right forearm builds prosthetic arms with Lego bricks
    2019-02-13  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

Teen David Aguilar has built himself four robotic prosthetic arms* using Lego pieces after being born without a right forearm due to a rare genetic condition.

Aguilar, 19, who studies bioengineering at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Spain, is already using his fourth model of the colorful prosthetic. His dream is to design affordable robotic limbs for those who need them.

Once his favorite toys, the plastic bricks became the building material for Aguilar’s first, still very rudimentary*, artificial* arm at the age of 9. Each new version had more movement capability than the one before.

“As a child I was very nervous to be in front of other guys, because I was different, but that didn’t stop me believing in my dreams,” said Aguilar, who is from Andorra, a tiny principality between Spain and France.

“I wanted to see myself in the mirror like I see other guys, with two hands,” he said, using the artificial arm only occasionally and is self-sufficient without it.

The latest models are marked MK followed by the number — a tribute to comic book superhero Iron Man and his MK armor suits.

Aguilar, who uses Lego pieces provided by a friend, proudly displayed a red-and-yellow, fully functional robotic arm built when he was 18, bending it in the elbow joint and flexing the grabber as the electric motor inside whirred.

A presentation video on his YouTube channel that he runs under the nickname “Hand Solo” says his aim is to show people that nothing is impossible and disability cannot stop them.

He said he wants to create affordable prosthetic solutions for people who need them. “I would try to give them a prosthetic, even if it’s for free, to make them feel like a normal person,”(SD-Agencies)

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