DID YOU KNOW? for November 22 – December 5, 2022:
DID YOU KNOW…Two Kenyan inventors, David Gathu and Moses Kinyua, have created the world’s first bio-robotic arm operated by brain signals. While each dropped out of college due to financial constraints, it did not stop them from learning or inventing.
In 2020, during the Covid-19 epidemic, as they were trying to develop tools to safely decontaminate surfaces in public areas, they came up with an electronic prosthetic arm-type device. When Kenyans adopted other ways to handle decontamination, Gathu and Kinyua were able to repurpose their invention as a device to help the disabled with the revolutionary feature of control via the wearer’s brain signals.
Learn more….
https://www.worldrecordacademy.org/medical/first-bio-robotic-arm-controlled-by-brain-signals-world-record-set-by-david-gathu-and-moses-kinyua-211155