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Engineer demonstrates £500 bionic hand he built
• arcleinAfter finding most bionic hands can cost up to $150,000, Ryan Saavedra, 27, set out to create one at a fraction of the cost. The prosthetic he created, called the Globally Available Robotic Arm (GARA), measures electrical activity of muscle tissue - a method called electromyography (EMG) - and combines this with AI to predict hand movements.