VOA常速英语:New Device Helps Children With Muscle Disease Move Their Hands(翻译)

This device called Vigor supports and boosts the child’s movement.The device has complex sensors that detect movement and send information to a set of flexible cables powered by actuators that provide automatic support for weak muscles.

“What the user needs to do is just need a little bit force with the device. The device will provide extra strength on the muscle to help the children complete the movement.”

Xinyang Tan is a graduate student at the Royal College of Art.He knows what it’s like to have weak muscles because he was born with cerebral palsy.He hopes his device will make easier for children with muscular diseases to do things like eat and move a computer mouse.

“They actually exercise the muscles they already have, so become stronger and extend the period of mobility of their limbs.”

Tan says there are other devices available for children with cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy.But Vigor is the first mechanism that allows for movement of the joints.

“You can fully control it as a normal people.”

Tan has started a business for Vigor and plans to market it once he’s perfected the apparatus.

David Bloc, VOA news, Washington