Oleg Galtsev, a 32-year-old software engineer, developed a cheap, open-source prosthetic arm in his Belarus basement for his father, Sergei Galtsev, a former Soviet army captain who lost his right arm in an explosion on a military firing range when Oleg was 4 years old.
The younger Galtsev noticed that around the world, prostheses were evolving from simply looking like a limb to behaving like one. When he searched for an advanced prosthesis in Belarus, he found that nothing was available. So he partnered with engineer Sergei Arefyev to develop an artificial arm that is inexpensive and easy to put together.
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