3D-Printed "Magic Arms"
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
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Two-year-old Emma wanted to play with blocks, but a condition called arthrogryposis meant she couldn't move her arms. So researchers at a Delaware hospital 3D printed a durable custom exoskeleton with the tiny, lightweight parts she needed.
This is the first best use of technology. Helping little girls play, do stuff and give hugs. Now if someone could find a way to get all the dust out of my room.
I teared up when she gave her mom a hug there near the end. This is exactly what technology should be doing these days.
FINALLY. someone who understands me. I often feel like a bad person for having this thought but now feel relieved someone else does too.
The beauty of 3D printing is that it doesn't require a mold. It can make nearly any 3D shape you can imagine such as a hollow sphere with another hollow sphere inside. You draw the shape in a CAD program and feed the data to the printer. Come back in a while and you have a finished part.
I've spent a year researching robots, with a focus on prosthetics. To see the WREX, which I spent a lot of time learning about, in action, is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
That 3-D printing technology, has endless applications to create a lot of good things. Happy for young Emma.
Lovely use of a 3D printer, really helps show the potential of the machines, particularly as the price and size go down, to be able to print out custom crutches, struts etc for disaster areas...
Thats so touching! im very happy for Emma! The "magic arms" will probably help millions of kids like that!
Additive manufacturing is the future!! Best wishes to Emma. I don't remember how I came across this vid but glad to see so much support for Emma and the technology from people the around globe!!
This is just one of those technologies that it immediately becomes evident how important they will be in the very near future. Remarkable.
I'm glad the parents allowed this video to be made. This is really cool.
Seeing this has made my day. It may be a little bulky, but it's light, easy to fix (reprint), and most importantly, just look what it's done for this little girl. This made me cry.
Congratulations to Emma on her mighty cyborg limbs! May her magic arms crush the skulls of her enemies!
Very touching. These kinds of videos are usually pretty corny to me but for some reason this one is heart-felt.
1:10 looking at the potato head just put me right back to my childhood! Congratulations and good luck to Emma!!!
She is a beautiful child may this continue to help her grow. She's lucky to have parents who took a chance to help their child have the best opportunity. May science continue to grow as this child does.
I used to design and build this type of stuff on 3D printers, they really are amazing pieces of technology.
One small step for man, One giant reach for emma!
Go Science GO! This is how is should be done.
An AMAZING story and the ultimate case study on why 3D printing has the opportunity to be such a game-changer. Go Emma!
Great item. Before the more widespread use of 3d printing I can't imagine anyone would have thought of this solution.
Man, sometimes I love humans. God bless this princess.
Why are people crying over this? It's something to be standing up and cheering for!
They have changed this girl's life forever. They've changed humanity forever.
That's now how the world works, kid. People value entertainment over the very very slim chance that some experiment works.
people say science isn't magic, but with the power of science you just made me cry with happiness. that's some kind of witchcraft. I got my eye on you
wow i dont know when i ended up in this field of onions but my tears keep on droppin >.>
Touching story. Great use of technology though! Emma looks so happy.
This made me cry. This is such and awesome story and such an amazing use for that technology. Hopefully when medical science progresses further she won't need her "magic arms" at all! excellent work chaps.
When I think of the future, I think about this. THIS! The ability to print out what we need. The ability to grant mobility to those without. This technology needs to become commonplace so we can hear more beautiful stories such as this one.
I believe it is just for support. Kind of like how a cane doesn't propel the user forward but allows them to lean on it and relieve their weight.
Good point, aerosaaber. Since Emma got the original 3D-printed WREX, 14 more children have been fitted with them. Seven of those have been in the last six months. Sample’s workshop is busy helping kids!
Where can we see updates?
This is why design technology is so great!
It's hard not to overlook, I used the end piano piece for a project and I must have listened to it at least 40 times to get it right. Hearing it makes you forget to be moved, and become annoyed at hearing it again.
Great work by the engineers who designed this.
This could make an awesome beginning to a new superhero movie...
They are. Well, crappier, DIY ones, but they're like $1000. I imagine in 10 years they'll be amazing
Aw, Emma is such a sweet little angel! That's wonderful those doctors were able to make a prosthetic to help her move her arms. I hope the best for her and her family. Maybe someday, Emma will be able to move her arms on her own without the use of her "magic arms." Thank you for uploading this touching video! :)
Disliking the video does not mean you dislike the girl. It does not mean you dislike helping people in need. Just felt like mentioning that. Who are those people who disliked this video anyway? :/
It looks as though the elastic bands are taking the weight of the arms, while the hinges allow them to flex. The girl can use them in front of her even though she doesn't have the strength to lift them up.
So....many.....onions.
Totally not crying. I just got something in my eye.
Onions everywhere. While I didn't exactly do the onions, I did get a warm and fuzzy feeling inside from this nice demonstration of technological evolution being used for helping out the ones who need it.
frac didn't lie to you. That is exactly what this product does. I know this because I manufacture the WREX. We manufacture ours out of aluminum. Our small or "baby Wrex" is in it's final design stages . The difference in the weight between the plastic version and ours is negligible . Whereas the durability factor is unmatched. I work at Jaeco Orthapedic, have for 25 years, This is actually our product that we worked extensively with DuPont to refine. The other WREX is built for older clients
This is how 3d printing will change the world.
Amazing!!! What progress for that precious little girl. I wish I could get that for my niece with Arthrogryposis. Her name is Emma also. I am speechless.
she's not crippled enough to have my sympathy.
They actually are available for personal use. For just the cost of an ipad ($599 or so) you can purchase a 3D printer and make things up to 6 in.^3 in size. I think more volume costs more money though. Anyways, the ability to do so is very close!
not actually, you'd be surprised for the most part. I mean obviously this isn't printed on a reprap/cupcake, but that's one of the perks of 3D printing, it keeps the cost down.
Beautiful. 3-d printing is definitely a useful tool. Keep at it guys.
Thank god for the person that came up with this jackit god bless this little girl
Just wait until she starts telling people that she never asked for this
this is FUCKING AWESOME! I love it when this stuff happens. It starts with Emma and who knows how many little ones will be able to live a better life? AMAZING!
Her muscles are so weak that she's unable to lift the weight of her own arms, so they hang at her sides.
The device uses elastic bands and levers to lift her arms to the point where they're basically "weightless". With that weight removed, she's able to use what limited strength she does have to move around, grasp objects, draw, etc.
By the time she will have her first boyfriend, bionic arms will be mainstream. That guy will be so happy.
Touching, but I can't be the only one waiting for Doc Tariq to summon an army of evil sand monsters to fight Brendan Frasier.
She is adorable!
WOW!!! Isn't technology amazing when it can do something like this.
How can any one dislike this? They take their working arms for Granted and they used them to tell the world that they don't like this? I Hope that their arms stop working tonight and find that they will not be able to use them for a week to a month with out any thing or any one to help them out at all so they could get a taste of what it is like. GRRRR. Cute kid and I do hope that the problem will go away so that she will not have to have the added weight to her body. Live long and Prosper. LCO
Why is it that whenever they make something like this they make it look like some kind of medieval torture device
They're the world's most fearsome trolling team!
This is an exciting time to be alive.
Sometimes tech is borderline miracle! At least for this little girl it truly is ;-)
Awesome! This is a really cool way to use abs plastic! (Lego bricks!) Go ahead little Lego girl!
Best Night Ever- i went from funny Will Ferrell vid to an inspirational one, so happy
if she has the enough attitude she'll be very popular in school, I mean, who doesn't like an exoskeleton as a kid?
This is amazing and I am going to have one for my daughter. I don't know what to say.
"The future is coming, the unity of man and machine." -Iron Man
This is the best ever! I LOVE this so hard, especially because I have a little daughter too. I'm a grown man but the story make my cry a little :)
Such a wonderful use of technology. Still sad that this girl has had to go through such a massive ordeal :(
That is the most inspiring use of technology I have seen in a while. Amazing
It wouldn't be as easy to make new parts, but i could easily see that being made out of wood (plus some cushioning for the "jacket" part); it is not like she got the printer in her own home and does the designs herself; with wood she would have to talk with someone with the skills and tools just the same.
Dear Barry Soetoro, they did build that!
Bloody hell ... "She had Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. I asked the doctors if they could help her, but the prognosis really was atrocious ... "
Poor little thing. But I'm impressed her Mom can remember (and say) the full (real) name of her condition so easily.
Thanks to the scientists and doctors of all specialties to make our world better.
Who do you think gave people the capability to perform such amazing things?
Just a thought with handy answers already worked out in a variety of fields including genetics, proteomics, and fashion.
way to go science and technology. improving and saving lives!!!! great to see
Love it! Tears in my eyes. This is what science is (or should be) about.
Yes, I love technology! That made me cry. Humans are so awesome at being awesome. Thanks for thinking out of the box : )
You can't know the good things in life as being good without knowing about the bad things.
The look on this child's face says it all.
This is amazing! It's great to know that this kind of tech exits and is being further developed.
Also: Shepard.
this is really exciting to see, hope it will be available for everybody, not just for the rich.
Thank god for putting those thoughts into the scientist's minds! He works in such magical ways. AMEN!
Though i am a tech freak. I am overwhelmed after watching this video.
3D-printing, omg, invest more into it please, it can help so many others
The world's most adorable Borg. :D
Every government: Ok that was cool and all. Now how to weaponize it.
But seriously this is so awesome.
thank god for making this little girl not be able to move her arms in the first place! AMEN!
How much does it cost them?
I know "custom made" usually means lots of money, is there way to bring down the cost for them?
One day those 3D printers will be cheap enough that anyone can print it at home.
Don't you see her smiling? People are sometimes dealt harsh hands at life but that doesn't mean they can't enjoy life as much as a fully functioning person.
The point of 3d printing is that custom made costs much less: you make the design for each child once, and then it's literally just the cost of the plastic to make it. And fitting the design to the child is probably not that hard. just basic transforms, probably no redesign.
They aren't very human friendly when they are on the floor in a dark room at 5 in the morning, walking barefoot when everyone else is still sleeping. That shit ll make you cry yo!
It won't be long before parents will be able to at least print replacement parts themselves. From what I've seen of Makerbot (a sub-$2K 3D printer), it could already do it.
My first thought too.
What's that science? What did you do? It looks like a goddamned miracle is what it looks like.
She is a cute kid and this is Awesome! I little creativity and a girl can now do what was once thought wouldn't be possible. Regardless of you beliefs this is a great story.
lovely, this kind of work changes life on earth.. thanks a lot
Just shows you innovation for the future.
How sweet. Will she ever be able to use her arms without assistance?
I can't believe someone would dislike this