Two British children born with partial limbs are the first to be fitted with Spider-Man bionic prosthetics developed with help from Marvel and Disney
Kaden Taylor and Safiyyah Uddin are now able to perform everyday tasks with their specially designed, 3D-printed prosthetics, designed to emulate their favourite superheroes.
The custom-made Peter Parker and Gwen Stacey Spider-Man bionic arms - developed by robotics company Open Bionics -, feature myoelectric sensors which detect muscular contractions generated from muscle groups in the arm.
(Video by SWNS)
Kaden Taylor and Safiyyah Uddin are now able to perform everyday tasks with their specially designed, 3D-printed prosthetics, designed to emulate their favourite superheroes.
The custom-made Peter Parker and Gwen Stacey Spider-Man bionic arms - developed by robotics company Open Bionics -, feature myoelectric sensors which detect muscular contractions generated from muscle groups in the arm.
(Video by SWNS)
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00:00 I've got a robotic arm and it was a surprise from my mum and dad. It's a fantastic surprise.
00:13 I got two covers, a Spider-Man cover and a Black Panther cover.
00:19 I'm the first person in the world to get this Spider-Man cover. I think it's amazing how
00:39 they've made it like this, how clever it is.
00:45 I'm Colette, I'm Caden's mum. We were offered some plastic things, they didn't move, they
00:51 were just pretend fake hands. That was from when he was about one, I think it was. But
00:56 we didn't want him to ever be like, "You're different, you need to be the same as everybody
01:00 else with two hands." So we didn't decide to do any of the prosthetic side of it until
01:05 we got a bit older and he started to notice that he was slightly different to his peers
01:09 and stuff.
01:10 We gave him different options at different times but when we told him about this he was
01:14 like, "Wow, yes please, that would be amazing."
01:17 It's going to give him so much more opportunity to do stuff that he's been restricted from
01:23 doing before and stuff like that. Like just little things like knife and fork, putting
01:28 his ketchup on his food, just certain things like that. Being more safe riding a bike,
01:32 which you can ride a bike now but it just gives him that extra grip.
01:36 My favourite superhero is Spider-Man for sure.
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