Artificial arms of Lego

amsterdam - The Spanish David Aguilar has made his own artificial arm, from Lego. The 19-year-old bioengineering student at the University of Barcelona was born without a right forearm due to a...

'I wanted to see myself in the mirror with two hands, just like any other boy,' said Aguilar from Andorra. 'As a child, I was always nervous about standing next to other children, because I was different, but that did not stop me from continuing to dream. 'At the age of nine he made his first arm of Lego and every new version could do more than the previous one. Now Aguilar is ready for his fourth model, a fully functional robot arm that can bend and can pick up anything. On YouTube, he shows that a Lego arm does not have to go under for a real one.