Robotic Hand??

Kia Ora Readers, Its me Maddie from YMS. Welcome to/back to my learning blog.

In Rimu we are very lucky and have two amazing teachers Mrs Taylor and Mrs Spragg.

Mrs Taylor's husband came in to show us his new robotic arm, there is only 5 people in NZ that have one and he is the only 1 in Chch. He showed us how the arm worked and how he controlled it. He lost his arm in an accident at his work, when he was 17. Last year we met him with his hook, his nickname was captain hook and we found it very fun to talk about.

The thumb on the biotic arm is like a joystick for a video game, this is because the thumb needs to move in different ways.

Rimu class found this very new and interesting shaking hands with him. There was different types of materials to make this arm, plastic,fabric. there was about two more but I can't remember them all.

I found it interesting how there was a battery for every finger to control each one. 

I enjoyed learning about Richards new arm and how it works, I like how it has bluetooth so you can control it with your phone he and Mrs Taylor has the app. ( I think that Mrs Taylor's going to have fun with that) 

Thank you all so much for coming onto my blog please leave a comment down below. Did you find it as interesting as I did? Talk to you guys next time I have something to share, until then Goodbye.