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The teen who made a revolutionary robot arm
Easton LaChappelle’s brainwave came when he was bored in class.
The teenager realised he wanted to do something extraordinary with his life. The question was, what?
The answer came from an unexpected direction. LaChappelle tinkered at home, building a robotic arm out of fishing wire, Lego and a 3D printer. Later, he met a young girl who was transfixed with his home-made prostheses – it turned out she had been fitted with a prosthetic limb, one so expensive “it was almost a burden for the family’.
LaChappelle decided to go back to the drawing board to try to discover what was wrong with the current artificial limbs, and what might be able to do to improve them.
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