Jeremy Schroeder was operating a four-wheeler in the vicinity of Sherwood, Ohio, in 2011, when the abrupt transition from a stone route to asphalt caused him to collide with an unseen stop sign. Schroeder was bleeding out quickly from the deep cut caused by the sign in his arm.
Before being taken to a nearby hospital, Shroeder, who was thirty at the time, had to wait more than an hour for emergency medical assistance to arrive.
Schroeder woke up minus a hand in a room across from his worried wife.
He recalled the encounter by saying, “She goes, ‘I got horrible news,'” to CNBC in an interview.
About five inches below his elbow, Schroeder’s left arm was severed. Having driven tractors, harvested crops, and taken care of animals on a small farm for four years, he was determined not to let his accident stop him.
After a span of 12 years, Schroeder continues with his routine activities despite wearing a prosthetic hand created by Aether Biomedical, a firm. Zeus, the hand of Aether, is capable of lifting up to 77 pounds and rapidly switching between 12 different programmable grip patterns. As an advocate for the firm, Schroeder said he used it for “everything,” including driving his truck, taking care of his children, and carrying groceries.
Aether, a Polish company founded in 2018, with its US headquarters located in Chicago. Aether can be used by amputees of the upper limbs, and its Zeus hand is available to anyone whose amputation ends between the wrist and the shoulder. Patients can attach Aether’s device to the end of a prosthetic socket that a doctor has fitted for them.
Aether’s Zeus hand, which is in use by more than 200 patients, functions similarly to other bionic hands in that it translates electrical signals from the arm muscles. The electrical signals that are detected by Aether’s sensors when a patient imagines performing a grip, such as gripping a bottle or squeezing a needle, are translated into actions by its software.
Schroeder stated, “You can accomplish pretty much whatever you can think of.” “What some people can do with it is very neat.”
Source (CNBC)