Bionic arm – level 2
06-09-2021 07:00
Scottish hotel owner Campbel Aird got the world’s first bionic arm in 1998. The arm weighed 1.8 kilograms, and it used a battery. With the new hand, Aird could do some things which he was not able to do before, for example, tie his shoes.
Since that time, the technology changed very much and changed people’s lives too. People with the new arm became more independent because they did not need the help of others with some simple tasks. Their lives improved greatly, and they could play games or ride bikes.
Nowadays, a bionic arm reads signals from a person’s muscles. Special sensors detect electric signals which a person’s limb naturally makes. Scientists believe that next year people will be able to control the bionic arm only by the mind.
Difficult words: bionic arm (a mechanical arm which works as much as a real arm as possible), detect (to notice that something exists), limb (an arm or leg).
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