Student builds Lego arm

An eight-year-old boy living in France has been given a pair of Lego prosthetic arms made by an Andorran engineering student called David Aguilar. When he was 18 years old, Aguilar built the world’s first fully functioning Lego prosthetic arm. A prosthetic implant is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part. Aguilar was born without a right forearm because of a condition called Poland syndrome, which affects muscle development on one side of the body. He called his Lego arm MK-I, after a suit built by the superhero Iron Man. Aguilar agreed to make a pair of Lego prosthetic arms especially for eight-year-old Beknur Zahibekyly. Beknur’s mother, Zaure, found Aguilar via his YouTube channel, called Hand Solo. She said that they didn’t want to get Beknur a normal…

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