Boy, 7, born with out hand will get new Iron Man-themed ‘robotic arm’

A boy who was born with no proper hand beamed with pleasure as he tried out his new “robot arm” – due to a kind-hearted businessman.

Seven-year-old Louie Morgan-Kemp had simply began fundraising for the prosthetic when a person noticed his story within the news and supplied to pay the complete £13,000 price.

The teenager, from Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, collected the Ironman-themed Hero Arm this week and might transfer its mechanical fingers through the use of muscle tissues in his arm to press buttons contained in the sleeve.

Louie stated the gadget, made by Bristol-based Open Bionics, helps him with selecting issues up, slicing meals and pouring drinks.

He stated it was “exciting” to get the arm and he was “happy” that businessman Billy Dixon had paid for him to get it.

The 73-year-old, of Egham, Surrey, noticed a narrative in regards to the household’s fundraising within the news this 12 months and contacted Louie’s mom on Facebook providing to pay in full.

Mr Dixon stated on the time: “I couldn’t think not to do it, it’s just in my nature doing things like that.”

Louie’s mom, Hannah Morgan, 32, stated she was grateful to Mr Dixon, including: “We weren’t expecting to have it happen so quickly.”

Louie used the arm to drink lemonade from a glass and to carry a bag of crisps, utilizing his left hand to eat them, as he received to grips with it on Wednesday.

Teaching assistant Ms Morgan stated the college summer time holidays this 12 months had “been all about waiting for that – for the Hero Arm”.

“It’s all he spoke about,” she stated.

“People have said how cool it is.”

Speaking earlier this 12 months, she stated Louie had been telling folks he was getting a “robot arm” and was “so excited”.

Open Bionics stated the Hero Arm is engineered and manufactured un the UK.

It describes it because the “world’s most affordable multi-grip prosthetic arm, with multi-grip functionality and empowering aesthetics”.