Wayan Sumardana, 31, and a father of 3, hails from a small village in Bali, Indonesia. He suffered a stroke about six months ago because of which he lost all sensation on his left arm.
And so, he build a ‘robotic arm’ using the scrap, gear wheels and lithium battery from his garage.
In an interview to BBC, he claimed, “It’s like a lie detector machine. I send a signal from my brain and that message is captured by the machine and it makes my arm move.”
The news of his discovery spread earning him the nickname of ‘Ironman’ and ‘Cyborg’.
However, his invention received flak from mechanical engineers who considered the working of the robotic arm to be impossible without computer programming.
By: Archa Dave
