A five-year-old boy born with one hand has become the youngest ever person to be fitted with a bionic arm.
Jordan Marotta was left in a state of “pure joy” when he received his Iron Man-themed ‘Hero Arm’ prosthetic on Wednesday (22/5).
And heartwarming footage showed how just hours later, he was able to whizz around on his scooter while holding the handlebars with the arm's life-like grip.
Delighted Jordan said about his new mechanical limb: “It’s really fun and it’s cool. I like to play with the hand and make it open and close.”
His mum Ashley Marotta, 38, approached Open Bionics - which makes the prosthetic - when Jordan started questioning why his hand had not 'grown back'.
Jordan Marotta was left in a state of “pure joy” when he received his Iron Man-themed ‘Hero Arm’ prosthetic on Wednesday (22/5).
And heartwarming footage showed how just hours later, he was able to whizz around on his scooter while holding the handlebars with the arm's life-like grip.
Delighted Jordan said about his new mechanical limb: “It’s really fun and it’s cool. I like to play with the hand and make it open and close.”
His mum Ashley Marotta, 38, approached Open Bionics - which makes the prosthetic - when Jordan started questioning why his hand had not 'grown back'.
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00:00 No, I see that.
00:02 Yay! Good job!
00:08 [Laughter]
00:10 [Breathing]
00:12 Try close. Gentle. Nice and easy.
00:14 Close. Yep.
00:16 Open. I did it with the open version!
00:18 You did it. Yes. Now close nice and easy.
00:20 [Breathing]
00:22 Now open.
00:24 I keep on doing it now!
00:26 You're doing it now. You're doing it. Yep.
00:28 Now close.
00:30 There you go. Now open.
00:32 See, you don't give up.
00:38 Don't give up.
00:40 Even if it doesn't work, don't give up.
00:42 Yep.
00:44 Close.
00:48 You moved the thumb. Move the thumb again.
00:50 [Laughter]
00:52 [Laughter]
00:54 [Laughter]
00:56 Peace!
00:58 Freeze mode. How do I
01:04 do freeze mode?
01:06 Now you're doing a great job.
01:08 All it takes is practice.
01:10 It takes a lot of practice, right?
01:12 All it takes is just
01:14 practice.
01:16 [Laughter]
01:18 It's so funny. You like it?
01:20 I just want to move the thumb. Yeah.
01:24 [Laughter]
01:26 I keep on doing like
01:28 some weird stuff to make it
01:30 move the thumb. Hold on one second.
01:32 Close. You almost...
01:34 Yes! Go Jordan!
01:36 Woo!
01:40 [Laughter]
01:42 [Laughter]
01:44 [BLANK_AUDIO]