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Anton is 11. He lost his right arm in a car accident. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:22 | |
There's nothing I can't do. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:26 | |
I can go on my bike, I can play football, I can run around. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:30 | |
I like going fast. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
Olivia is seven. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
Her left arm ends at the elbow and her legs below the knee. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
These are my high-heel legs. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:42 | |
They go down like a slide. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:46 | |
Both are getting the latest in high-tech designer limbs. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:50 | |
But what difference will it make to their lives? | 0:00:51 | 0:00:55 | |
I'm looking forward to getting them | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
because they'll just look like real feat. | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
I can pick stuff up and control it, | 0:00:59 | 0:01:01 | |
and show it to people and they'll be amazed. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
Anton lives near Manchester with his mum and his brother and sisters. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:18 | |
I'm Anton. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:19 | |
We're with Matvey and Anna and we're on the trampoline. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:23 | |
He is my brother and the one who's a bit scared is my sister. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:32 | |
You. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
I lost my arm in a car crash in 2007. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:43 | |
I was kind of trying to go to sleep and then I felt the car shake | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
and then I got knocked out, | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
and then I woke up on the floor with blood around me and my arm was gone. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:53 | |
It was very bad and I think we are lucky to be alive, all of us, | 0:01:53 | 0:01:59 | |
because the whole family was in the car. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
The biggest challenge for us was to accept the fact that | 0:02:01 | 0:02:05 | |
he lost his arm and he won't have his arm back. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:10 | |
Then we started getting used to the fact that there is no arm. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:16 | |
I was right-handed before the accident | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
and then I became left-handed, | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
and it was pretty hard to learn how to draw. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:26 | |
On my first day, I tried to draw Winnie the Pooh | 0:02:26 | 0:02:28 | |
but it didn't look right, it looked like a hairball. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:32 | |
And now I'm really good at drawing and over the years, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
I've become a lot better. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
But it was harder to start writing | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
because it felt like I had to flip the letters over. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
There's nothing I can't do. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:52 | |
I can go on my bike, I can play football, | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
I can run around, I can go to the park and go with my friends. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:59 | |
Anton steers his bike by pushing and pulling with his left arm. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:08 | |
I'm just going up this speed bump, going to keep going. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
When I turn right, it's harder to turn right than left | 0:03:11 | 0:03:17 | |
because I push on my left handlebar. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:21 | |
When I turn left, it's easier, I don't need to lean. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
To get where I am now took about three months. I was really wobbly. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:30 | |
I kept trying and then I could ride. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
His one-handed cycling is pretty impressive. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:37 | |
I wouldn't be able to do it that well for the first day | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
but if I carried on trying and trying, I'd properly get there | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
in the end but still wouldn't be as good as Anton is now. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
Anton's taught himself to play computer games with one hand too. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:51 | |
He gives his older brother Matvey a run for his money. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
Well, I hold it like this and move both my joysticks, | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
and this button here, that one, is to run. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:03 | |
I think I can go as fast as my brother can with two hands. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
He's always top on the list. He's still much better than me at it. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
-You won. -I know. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:18 | |
I don't want people to feel sorry for me | 0:04:18 | 0:04:22 | |
because then they stop acting normal, start acting strange | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
and then they keep asking if I need help when I don't really need help. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:30 | |
Doctors gave Anton fake arms called prosthetic arms, | 0:04:30 | 0:04:34 | |
but he preferred not to wear them. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:36 | |
When I first got my first arm, I didn't like it | 0:04:36 | 0:04:41 | |
because it got in the way of stuff like running, writing and football. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:47 | |
I also stopped wearing it because it broke. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
This one doesn't look realistic, it looks like a fat person's hand, | 0:04:50 | 0:04:55 | |
and this one looks realistic | 0:04:55 | 0:04:56 | |
but it looks like a freaky girl's hand from a movie. | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
All that's about to change as Anton is one of only a handful | 0:05:00 | 0:05:04 | |
of children to get an advanced robotic arm | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
called a myoelectric arm. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
Soon I'm going to get a myoelectric arm and I'm going to... | 0:05:10 | 0:05:13 | |
get excited about it because I can show it to my friends. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
I can also pick stuff up and squish them and throw stuff around. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:20 | |
I can control it and show it to people, | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
and they'll be amazed. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:24 | |
Olivia is seven. She lives in Cumbria with her mum. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:40 | |
When I was two, | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
I had meningitis. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:48 | |
If I didn't get my legs and my arm chopped off, | 0:05:48 | 0:05:53 | |
I would have died. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:58 | |
Since her operation, Olivia has had many pairs of fake legs. | 0:05:58 | 0:06:03 | |
These are my high-heel legs. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:08 | |
They're not straight, they go down like a slide. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:14 | |
Olivia was about to die at any moment | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
and we were told that the amputations might save her life. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:24 | |
We were elated by that, the fact that her life could be saved from that, | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
so we wanted it to happen. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:30 | |
We didn't know if she was going to be brain-damaged, or deaf, or blind. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:35 | |
We just wanted our little daughter saved and would deal with the rest. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
Olivia's got a good answer for people who ask what happened. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:50 | |
A crocodile bit my legs off. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:53 | |
She had to learn to walk all over again | 0:06:54 | 0:06:58 | |
but to everyone's amazement, it didn't take very long. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
I actually didn't think she would ever walk in prosthetic legs | 0:07:01 | 0:07:06 | |
and, literally, it was six weeks, two months later | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
that she started walking on her legs. It was amazing. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
Today there is little Olivia can't do. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:20 | |
With her legs on she is as mobile as all her friends. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
We're starting horse riding in the summer and I don't know | 0:07:22 | 0:07:27 | |
when we're going trampolining again. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:31 | |
Over the years, Olivia has had lots of legs and arms | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
but she is not always happy about how they look. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:37 | |
I don't really like the feet because they're yellow | 0:07:37 | 0:07:44 | |
and they don't look real. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
We thought, "Well, she's entitled to have realistic looking skin. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
-"Everyone else does, why shouldn't she?" -There is an alternative. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:55 | |
A covering which looks and feels exactly like real human skin. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
It's expensive but thanks to a charity, | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
Olivia has been given the money to get some made. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
I'm really excited about getting my new legs. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:10 | |
I think they're going to look more like my friends' legs | 0:08:10 | 0:08:14 | |
because they've got the real skin on them. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:17 | |
Since his accident three years ago, Anton has learned to do a lot | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
with just one arm but some things are still a problem, | 0:08:26 | 0:08:30 | |
cycling uphill for instance. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
I can for a bit and then I start to slow down and then eventually | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
I start to go backwards, | 0:08:36 | 0:08:37 | |
so I just get off and carry my bike over the hill. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:39 | |
And artificial arms he's had in the past haven't helped. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:48 | |
My first one didn't do anything. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
All it can do is just spin and then my second one was like a hand, | 0:08:50 | 0:08:54 | |
but I had to push with my shoulder and that hurt, just to get it open. | 0:08:54 | 0:09:00 | |
It didn't really do anything but get in the way. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:03 | |
And so Anton's got high expectations for his new myoelectric arm. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:09 | |
My robotic arm isn't finished yet but I know how it will work. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:16 | |
Every time I move a muscle, | 0:09:19 | 0:09:21 | |
it sends a tiny electrical signal. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
When I'm move these two muscles in my stump, | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
their electrical signals will be picked up by the sensors | 0:09:29 | 0:09:33 | |
at the top of my robot arm. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
The sensors then send a message to the motor, | 0:09:35 | 0:09:37 | |
which opens and closes the hand. | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
If I move this muscle, | 0:09:43 | 0:09:44 | |
the hand will open. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:46 | |
If I move this muscle... | 0:09:47 | 0:09:48 | |
it will close. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
So I'm in charge. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:54 | |
In Cumbria, Olivia's off to hospital. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
She's taking the first step | 0:10:01 | 0:10:03 | |
towards getting her more lifelike arm and legs. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:06 | |
Hiya. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
Give him wave. | 0:10:10 | 0:10:11 | |
Yeah. There's Neil. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
Neil and his team have been making prosthetic limbs for Olivia | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
since she was two. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:19 | |
They always fit well, but Olivia thinks they look fake. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:24 | |
Almost like a shop dummy's. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
That's because the covering they put on here is very basic | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
and the feet are a different colour. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
But this time, Neil and his team will send her limbs away | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
to another clinic to have amazing lifelike skin put on. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
What's he going to do? | 0:10:44 | 0:10:45 | |
He's going to get some powdery stuff out of the packet | 0:10:45 | 0:10:52 | |
and put it in the water and it will go all gooey | 0:10:52 | 0:10:54 | |
and he's going to put it all over my legs. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
Today, Olivia is having a plaster cast made... | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
-It's cold. -Is that cold? | 0:11:00 | 0:11:03 | |
-..so Neil can make sure her new legs fit. -What does it feel like? | 0:11:03 | 0:11:08 | |
-Er, gooey. -Does it? | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
-Oh, that's it. -That's how we want it, isn't it? | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
Next week, once Neil has made Olivia's new arm and legs, | 0:11:17 | 0:11:20 | |
he will send them away to the specialist skin clinic in London | 0:11:20 | 0:11:24 | |
so they can be made to look like real ones. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:26 | |
Your arm's all red, Neil. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:31 | |
-And white! -Red and white. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:34 | |
In Manchester, Anton has also got an important appointment. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
We're going to PACE to have a look at my robotic arm. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:45 | |
And then... | 0:11:45 | 0:11:46 | |
And I'm going to get some hot chocolate. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
PACE is the special clinic that's making Anton's new arm. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:02 | |
This is Toby. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:05 | |
He helps me with the robotic arm that I'm going to get. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:09 | |
I think next week, it is, I'll get it. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
We will need your T-shirt off your shoulder, I think. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:16 | |
Today, Toby, the engineer, will test the sensors which will | 0:12:16 | 0:12:19 | |
eventually be fitted to the top of Anton's robotic arm. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
-Is this the right way round, can you remember? -I think so. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:26 | |
It's complicated. But Anton knows exactly what's going on. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
When I move my front muscle, that senses it | 0:12:30 | 0:12:34 | |
and sends the signal through this wire and into the machine, | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
so then if I move a muscle there, the red one goes up. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:42 | |
Then the back one goes through this wire. That's my back muscle. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:46 | |
The stronger I move my muscles, the higher the signals go. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:51 | |
-Can you do the front one? -Yeah. -Excellent. Very good. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:55 | |
And the back one? | 0:12:55 | 0:12:56 | |
When Anton's arm is built, the wires will carry the electrical | 0:12:56 | 0:13:01 | |
-signals to the motor that moves his robotic hand. -OK. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:07 | |
Toby is adjusting both sensors | 0:13:07 | 0:13:08 | |
-so he can get a clear signal from each muscle. -Is that OK? -Yeah. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:12 | |
Let me turn this one slightly. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:15 | |
Anton had to pass tests to get to this stage. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
Not everyone has enough muscle control to work a robotic arm. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:22 | |
OK, that looks good. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:24 | |
So one of those will open the hand and the other one will close it. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:29 | |
That's all there is to it today, I think. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:32 | |
Olivia's come to a clinic in London to see for herself | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
the amazing skin which will eventually cover | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
her new arm and legs. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:44 | |
-Yes! -How are you, Olivia? It is nice to see you. My name is Abdo. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:49 | |
-Can you say "Abdo"? Come on. -Say it, then? -Come on! | 0:13:49 | 0:13:54 | |
Abdo specialises in making silicone skin that looks | 0:13:54 | 0:13:58 | |
and feels incredibly realistic. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:00 | |
He will make a kind of boot like this one, | 0:14:04 | 0:14:06 | |
which will pull on over Olivia's fake leg. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
It's got spots, or something. Look at the little nail. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:14 | |
Is that supposed to be a freckle? | 0:14:17 | 0:14:19 | |
Don't want freckles. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
Ah, it feels weird! | 0:14:25 | 0:14:28 | |
-That is big. -Yeah. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
Ohh! It looks like a man's one. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:43 | |
It IS a man's one. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:45 | |
Look, it's got a vein sticking out there. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
Ahh, feel the hairs. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:51 | |
-So you don't want hairy legs? -No. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:55 | |
This is for somebody else, it's not your one. | 0:14:56 | 0:14:59 | |
Your one is made to your colour. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:02 | |
And you can choose what shaped toes you want. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
You can choose to have them long, if you want the nails square, | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
if you want the nails round. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:09 | |
If you want a big toe bigger than the second toe. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:12 | |
If you want the second toe bigger than the big toe. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:14 | |
You can choose what you like. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:16 | |
Olivia has never liked her yellow-looking feet. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:19 | |
So now she'll be able to have handmade toes | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
with gaps between them. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
-Probably most likely, Olivia would want a split toe. -Definitely, yes. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:28 | |
So it will look much nicer. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:29 | |
The nice thing is they can be washed and cleaned like a normal foot. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
The don't stain if even ink comes on them and so on. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
And they are very durable. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:37 | |
Olivia wants Abdo to paint a little picture on one of her legs. | 0:15:37 | 0:15:40 | |
-A dolphin. -Yeah, where would you like a dolphin. Somewhere up here? | 0:15:40 | 0:15:46 | |
Next, Abdo takes a cast of Olivia's right hand... | 0:15:47 | 0:15:50 | |
-Do you think it will be cold or warm? -Cold. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:55 | |
-..so he can make her a realistic left hand. -And up. Very good. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:59 | |
And it captures all the little details. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:03 | |
Smells nice, no? Doesn't it? | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
We are going to start with the hand. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:13 | |
Abdo uses a special camera to record Olivia's skin colours. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
That's because each part of her body is a slightly different shade. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:19 | |
Because this hand doesn't get much sun, and the top of the thigh too. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:24 | |
The cast of Olivia's right hand shows every tiny | 0:16:24 | 0:16:27 | |
detail of the lines in her palms, | 0:16:27 | 0:16:29 | |
the creases on her knuckles and the shape of her nails. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:32 | |
-Adding all this detail takes time. -Ohh! | 0:16:37 | 0:16:42 | |
Around two days for each limb. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:45 | |
It will be a least a month before Abdo and his team can put | 0:16:45 | 0:16:48 | |
the finishing touches to Olivia's new arm and legs. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:52 | |
-Thanks. -You are welcome. | 0:16:53 | 0:16:57 | |
Ah, you are strong, aren't you? | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
Right, nice meeting you. Take care. Thank you. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:03 | |
In Manchester, it is a week since Anton tested out the sensors | 0:17:03 | 0:17:07 | |
for his new robotic arm. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:09 | |
Yeah, I make my hot chocolate every time I come in. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:12 | |
Toby's got some good news. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:14 | |
Anton's robotic arm is charged up and ready | 0:17:17 | 0:17:20 | |
and he's going to put it through its paces. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
Are you looking forward to trying it out? | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
Um...yeah. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:27 | |
The myoelectric arm works by picking up the electrical | 0:17:31 | 0:17:34 | |
signals which naturally occur whenever we move a muscle. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:37 | |
When Anton moves these two muscles, | 0:17:40 | 0:17:42 | |
the signals should be picked up by sensors at the top of his new arm. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
Before his accident, these muscles moved Anton's shoulder, | 0:17:47 | 0:17:52 | |
elbow and upper arm. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:53 | |
Now their messages will be sent to the motor which opens | 0:17:55 | 0:17:58 | |
and closes his hand. | 0:17:58 | 0:18:00 | |
That's the theory. But will it work in practice? | 0:18:02 | 0:18:06 | |
That's fine. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:09 | |
Anton is having to retrain the muscles at the top of his arm | 0:18:11 | 0:18:15 | |
to control his electronic hand. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:16 | |
It's pretty amazing! | 0:18:16 | 0:18:19 | |
How does that seem? | 0:18:21 | 0:18:23 | |
But it will take lots of patience and lots of practice. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:30 | |
Eventually, as Anton grows, he will have an arm big enough to fit | 0:18:35 | 0:18:39 | |
extra motors for the elbow and wrist. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:41 | |
How does that seem? | 0:18:45 | 0:18:48 | |
Stiff. Good. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:50 | |
-OK? -Yep. | 0:18:51 | 0:18:53 | |
If you stand up for me... | 0:18:53 | 0:18:55 | |
The last time Anton picked something up with his right hand, | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
it was his own real hand, not a robotic one. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
The task is open that, pour it in there | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
and then hold on to the mug whilst you're stirring it. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:12 | |
We don't mind some spilling. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
If he passes this test, | 0:19:19 | 0:19:21 | |
his robotic arm will get some finishing touches | 0:19:21 | 0:19:23 | |
to make it look more realistic. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:25 | |
Use it to stabilise items | 0:19:27 | 0:19:29 | |
and support items that you're doing something with with your left hand. | 0:19:29 | 0:19:33 | |
So that's basically how you can use it. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
Anton has passed the test and with flying colours. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:47 | |
I was surprised when I saw him picking this up | 0:19:47 | 0:19:50 | |
and he was very confident. He wasn't scared. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:54 | |
He's always confident - maybe that's why! | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
It's fun. And it's helpful. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
In London, | 0:20:04 | 0:20:05 | |
Abdo's team are close to finishing Olivia's lifelike arm and legs. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:10 | |
They have stretched the skin onto her new false limbs | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
and while the silicon is still soft, they add all the details. | 0:20:14 | 0:20:19 | |
The technician cuts a piece out of each toe, | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
so the handmade nails can get a realistic fit. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:26 | |
Now just sits on like that. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:31 | |
The veins and freckles will be painted on | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
once the silicon is completely dry. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:35 | |
Put the last one in now. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:38 | |
All the detailing is done by hand. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:45 | |
All the creases done with little tools. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
There's more detail on the hand, as you can see on the palm. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
Much more creases and more veins up in the wrist. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:57 | |
Little white tips you can put on, little half moons. | 0:20:57 | 0:21:01 | |
It will have taken a total of seven days | 0:21:01 | 0:21:03 | |
to make Olivia's three limbs look realistic. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:07 | |
Back home in Cumbria, Olivia can't wait. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:16 | |
I'm looking forward to getting them | 0:21:16 | 0:21:18 | |
because when I do they'll just look like real feet. | 0:21:18 | 0:21:23 | |
And people won't really recognise that they're fake. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:31 | |
And then they'll probably say to me, "They've grown back." | 0:21:31 | 0:21:36 | |
Anton's wait is over. His robotic arm is finished. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:52 | |
This is my first time ever at home with my electric arm. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:56 | |
Since he last saw it, | 0:21:56 | 0:21:58 | |
the orange prongs have been covered with a plastic glove. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
Now, can I go pick something up? | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
Try maybe this. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
TV switch. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:14 | |
This is not a simple task. Anton is having to retrain his muscles... | 0:22:17 | 0:22:22 | |
Pass me the switch. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:24 | |
..to do things they've never done before. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:27 | |
Thank you. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:29 | |
Sometimes I can struggle to build, because I really love building. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:37 | |
It could help me eat or cook because I could hold a bowl still | 0:22:37 | 0:22:41 | |
and then I could mix it with my left hand. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:45 | |
No, it's too slippery. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
Anton's not been able to open a bottle | 0:22:50 | 0:22:52 | |
since his accident three years ago. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:54 | |
His mum usually has to step in. | 0:22:56 | 0:22:58 | |
There. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
-Ta-da! -I opened a bottle. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:03 | |
That's nice, thank you. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:04 | |
A big achievement | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
but there's a bit more work needed on the letting go muscle. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
Give it to me. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:14 | |
And there's one more thing to have a go at. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:18 | |
At first, he'll see how he does on the driveway. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:21 | |
I'm going to sit down and then I'm going to open it. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:25 | |
Then I'm going to put that on, then I'm going to close it, | 0:23:29 | 0:23:32 | |
then I'm going to turn it off so it doesn't open. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:35 | |
BEEP | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
I want to be able to pick up my handlebars on my bike | 0:23:37 | 0:23:41 | |
when I'm riding it. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:42 | |
My friends can do that but I can't. I think this might be able to help me. | 0:23:42 | 0:23:47 | |
So far, so good. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:49 | |
Balancing with his new robotic arm is a great start. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
I get a little bit frustrated when I expect something to work, | 0:23:52 | 0:23:56 | |
then I keep trying different stuff | 0:23:56 | 0:23:58 | |
and on and on and it just doesn't work. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
Ow, that's hurting. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:04 | |
Having to rethink everything about the way you do things | 0:24:04 | 0:24:08 | |
is a massive challenge but Anton isn't going to give up. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:11 | |
It's harder to use than I thought it would be. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:16 | |
I can throw stuff. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:25 | |
In Cumbria, Olivia's got her new | 0:24:28 | 0:24:30 | |
realistic-looking arm and legs at last | 0:24:30 | 0:24:33 | |
and her friend Gemma is filming it all. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
-Who's this then? -Gemma. -Hello. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:40 | |
SHE GIGGLES | 0:24:40 | 0:24:42 | |
-Has that got the dolphin on? -Yeah. -Have a look. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:47 | |
I've never seen anybody else with a dolphin on their leg before, | 0:24:47 | 0:24:51 | |
like, in that place. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:53 | |
It's the details with all the stuff on her legs. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:57 | |
They're amazing. | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
Do a twirl, come on. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:00 | |
I think they're real feet. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:04 | |
I don't know whose is whose, which is which. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
-I'm getting confused. -That's mine, that's yours. No! | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
-Look at the difference between those feet. -I've got bigger feet. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:15 | |
I know, | 0:25:15 | 0:25:16 | |
and you can actually paint those and take them off whenever you like. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
It's a good thing. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
-You don't get veins either. -You don't get anything. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:25 | |
-You don't get long nails. -You don't get the lines, do you? | 0:25:25 | 0:25:29 | |
They haven't got lines. They have. They haven't got lines there. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:32 | |
They have. That's the difference. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:35 | |
Put your arms out. | 0:25:35 | 0:25:36 | |
No, like, down a bit so we can see which is real, which isn't. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:41 | |
I think that one's real and that ain't. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:45 | |
I'm really pleased with them and she's excited too. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:51 | |
She thinks they look really real and that makes her happy. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:54 | |
The skin matches her skin as well, the colour, so, yeah, | 0:25:54 | 0:25:57 | |
really pleased with them. | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
They just look like the legs Olivia would've had | 0:26:00 | 0:26:03 | |
if they hadn't been amputated when she was two and a half. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:07 | |
At Brownies last night, somebody thought my legs were real. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:11 | |
Anton's not quite ready to get back on his bike | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
but for the past five weeks, | 0:26:21 | 0:26:23 | |
he's been practising doing other things with his robotic arm. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:27 | |
At the start I found it a bit heavy and uncomfortable, | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
but I'm starting to get used to it | 0:26:30 | 0:26:33 | |
because I wear it more often and practise with it. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:36 | |
He's been getting help from Kaye. She works with Toby at the clinic. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:40 | |
-Have you been managing to do zips before? -Yeah. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:43 | |
You've found your own kind of way of doing it. | 0:26:43 | 0:26:45 | |
A new zip as well, you see. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
Oh, well done! | 0:26:47 | 0:26:49 | |
She said I've done well with the blocks and Lego pieces. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:55 | |
I found the Lego pieces a bit tricky | 0:26:55 | 0:26:58 | |
but the blocks are really fun and easy. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:00 | |
Don't be afraid to pass it to your left hand. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:03 | |
-SHE LAUGHS -Did you try to throw it in then? | 0:27:03 | 0:27:09 | |
Anton is still working out | 0:27:12 | 0:27:13 | |
how to make the best use of his robotic arm. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
It doesn't help me for some stuff and for other stuff it helps me. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:20 | |
But with or without it, | 0:27:21 | 0:27:24 | |
he's determined that nothing will get in the way | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
of having fun with his mates. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:30 | |
-If you can do it, I can do it. -Nobody ever asks questions | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
and he just fits in and we just treat him normal. | 0:27:33 | 0:27:36 | |
Hold on tight. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:37 | |
He pushes himself a lot. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:39 | |
That's easy. That was mint. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:41 | |
I was really afraid of my future but now I'm really happy about it | 0:27:41 | 0:27:46 | |
because I know that I can do anything I want. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
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