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Sol is my first child he was born in
2015 and he's the light of my life it
was a normal healthy pregnancy but we
think that during the forceps delivery
that the forceps crushed the artery in
his left arm sadly by the time he was
taken to a specialist unit in alder hey
it was too late so he had to lose the
arm
my name's Ben I'm the CEO and founder of
an bionics and I invented body fire
hydraulics so I started on my phone from
from the hospital researching amputation
amputees prosthetics and I noticed
immediately there was a pattern of
rejection
in children who didn't receive a
prosthetic or functioning prosthetic
early enough when that just inspired me
and I just remember thinking that's not
going to be my soul I started to play
around with the idea of prosthetics of
basic ones when sold was five weeks of
age and that's just unheard of but does
all it's perfectly normal
and I don't know there's not much
technology there but it hadn't been done
and I think that was the turning point
just just allowing him to hit hit the
toys in his in his crib and was actually
one night I think it's 2:00 in the
morning and I was thinking through the I
saw a spider on the roof and I remember
seeing that spiders use hydraulic
pressure to actuate that likes a fluid
solution jump to mind it was like a
Eureka moment I printed these which are
PVA soluble casts if you can see the
fluid that I'm gonna fail which would be
polyurethane so print them in that
position and there's a cavity inside
which is filled with liquid polyurethane
which is very cheap and incredibly
strong and eight hours later after
you've chipped it in water and can
produce this the idea being that it'll
go under the arm sole squishes it extend
or retract the bellow with a spring on
the end of it and just open and close
the thumb which is incredibly simple but
to get to this point where I can make
them has been an epic journey
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and in January I met up with Paul Zoe
who is a an autodesk product designer
and he showed me how he designs
prosthetic sockets i can now create
sockets that fit perfectly so from
receiving a scan now from child anywhere
in the world i can model a socket in
about 20 minutes to 40 minutes depending
on every child's different and every
shape is different but i'm getting
faster and getting better i want to keep
affordable arms available to families
who perhaps around the world don't have
access to a prosthetist and I didn't
realize how in South America it's 13
years and there's just nothing available
and so I would like to be able to set up
and weigh onyx in in every continent
when I see Seoul using his just this
passive non-functional arm and I see him
using it intuitively I'm gonna just lean
down and scratch his leg with it excited
I thought even if this all stops now I
think I've managed to bridge that gap I
wanted to show the world is that this
wasn't just something that I'm working
on with my son that I could quite easily
help other children
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it felt like we haven't quite hit the
right note but we obviously did with our
s and I'm eternally grateful for the
support we've had what a couple of 3d
printers didn't think selamun would be
as expensive as it was particularly some
of us you know the PVA for example
that's er specialist stuff the rest is
history I was I received 15 kilograms of
filament which is enough to do the
entire beta trial and most of my
prototyping but to just have somebody
looking at us you know that button E is
put on the back that I need some
acknowledgment that was really really
motivating for me
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