What Life Is Like With a Robotic Arm
(World News Austria)

This article originally appeared on VICE Austria When I was 15 years old, my lower right arm was amputated after I was hit by a passing train. For a while, I used a fairly standard myoelectric-controlled prosthetic arm - a device that senses tiny nerve signals in your muscles, which control the arm movement of the prosthetic. Apart from putting forward my left hand instead of the right when greeting someone, I never consciously hid my disability. But thanks to the prosthetic`s beige-pink appearance, it didn`t stand out in the first place. The classmates in high school to whom I hadn`t told what had happened, didn`t notice for months that I was using a...