AI powers the way for improved lives
Shen Biao, a designer from OYMotion in Shanghai, tests a robotic hand. GAO ERQIANG/CHINA DAILY Devices help those who have lost body parts to regain abilities Wang Chaofeng lost both hands and forearms in an accident more than 25 years ago when he was fixing a high-voltage wires while serving in the People's Liberation Army Air Force in Jinan, Shandong province. "In the past two decades, I have gradually accepted the reality and learned to live with it," said Wang, 48. But things changed for Wang last year, when OYMotion Technologies, a Chinese startup, contacted him to take part in testing the company's prototype of a myoelectric artificial arm, an externally powered device controlled by electric signals generated by the user's muscles. With two sensors embedded in his upper arms along with battery-powered mechanical hands, Wang can control the prothesis to perform more than a dozen different grips.
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