Two Kenyan cousins are making robotic limbs out of recyclables for people with disabilities.The innovators want to perfect their device, but funding is a challenge.In the suburbs of Kikuyu in Kenya's Kiambu County, 29-year-old Moses Kiuna and his cousin David Gathu are fiddling with wires and electric cables in their workshop, their grandmothers' former granary.
The self-taught innovators began studying the science behind how the brain sends signals to the nervous system in order for motor activity to occur. Armed with this knowledge, they developed a robotic prosthetic that functions like a human hand to aid people who've lost arms due to accidents, illnesses or congenital disabilities.
To accommodate people who've lost their mobility from the neck down or who have developed quadriplegia due to accidents or disease, they've also invented a robot with a human interface that uses artificial intelligence. "Access to cutting-edge equipment and materials that can graft plastics or aluminium and enable us to design a hand that is similar in function to the real hand would make a lot of difference," Gathu said.
"Some learning institutions have asked us to give up the innovation in exchange for an opportunity to pursue higher education, but we don't think it's worth it, considering we've taught ourselves what we know about robotic technology so far," Kiuna said.
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