Tilly's bionic hand can crawl around on its own

The Manila Times

Tilly's bionic hand can crawl around on its own   19-year-old Instagram influencer Tilly Lockey has been at the forefront of prosthetic innovation with UK-based robotics company Open Bionics for nearly a decade. Now, she's the proud owner of their latest bionic arms — this time with hands that can operate when detached from the wearer's body.  Lockey — who lost both her hands to meningitis as a toddler — has helped Open Bionics push the boundaries of what is possible, contributing to features such as 360-degree wrist rotation and wireless control, which enhance the user experience significantly.  REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe   Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net   Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  #TheManilaTimes #worldnews  #prosthetichand

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00:00so as you can see it's just really really responsive super fast super strong to the

00:24point where like I'm not used to being that strong yeah and when I first put them on and

00:28like tried to pick something up I was like crushing everything because they're hella strong and these

00:33aren't even the strongest ones they've also launched the hero rugged which is like the

00:38even stronger faster arm so as you can imagine it's pretty crazy all while keeping it like

00:43lightweight lighter than you know other ones on the market

00:58but also one thing which has taken the internet by storm is the fact that they are completely

01:12wireless so if you push the button in you can actually like detach the hand which is really

01:19weird so I could just pull it out like that but I can still operate it when it's not attached so

01:27I can like move it around even when it's not attached to the arm and that's just the same

01:34muscle sensors same way I'd move it as if it were attached but it doesn't even need to be attached

01:38it could just go on its own missions which is kind of crazy

01:42going for the phone so I'm literally operating it exactly the same way as if it was attached but

01:57you can just unplug the hand and then clench in that same muscle I just squeeze to close

02:02flex to open the hand can crawl away like it's got a mind of its own

02:07so these prosthetics are completely like muscle operated there's no sort of like invasive chip

02:28or anything like that contrary to popular belief it's literally you just stick it on and there's

02:32these two sensors which we call myopods so there's got one on the inside and one on the outside you

02:39just pop them in and what they're doing is chucking my muscle movements of my organic remaining limb

02:44so all I'm doing is literally two movements you've got squeeze the muscles to close which you can kind

02:51of see what I'm doing here and then flex to open and from that point onwards it kind of works like a menu system

02:56so I had meningitis septicemia when I was a baby and if anyone doesn't know what that is it's a pretty

03:24fatal disease and initially I was literally told that I was going to die like I was given zero percent

03:29chance of survival but obviously I'm here today and it was after one week in intensive care three weeks

03:35in recovery a secondary infection and 10 blood transfusions that somehow we got the good news that I was

03:40getting better when the doctors came in and said listen she's getting better but we are going to have

04:00to amputate hands like anybody hearing that must think that is crazy and like devastating like it's a

04:06life-altering body-altering operation it's going to change everything from this point onwards so I can

04:12only imagine what it would must have been like for my family and my parents and that sort of thing

04:16I think when I was do like dealing with it all obviously I was so young like I can't really remember

04:22anything that happened but I do know that I was like really stubbornly determined and wanted to be as

04:31independent as possible

04:32hearing people being like proud to show off that difference now rather than having to like hide it

04:53away I feel like that's the thing all them different people go through you know where you start to roll

04:58the sleeves down and things like that but with this technology it's like people want to show it off

05:03for the first time and I think that's amazing and like they're my favorite stories you know people

05:08wanting to go out in the summertime and wear their little t-shirts and roll their sleeves up and like

05:12little kids getting like Elsa inspired arms and you know all their friends at school being excited

05:17about it and them being excited about it that's what it's all about

05:28so

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