From scraps ,Tawan Design Robot For Paralyzed Hand Movement

Amlapura, BALIPOST.com - I Wayan Sumardana Sutawan alias Tawan (31), from Banjar Tauman, Nyuhtebel village dubbed as a human robot. He was able to design your own robot drive that paralyzed his left hand, in order to work for a living to support the family.

Wednesday afternoon (13/01/2016), at his workshop in Banjar Tauman roadside Candidasa - Tenganan Pageringsingan, Tawan was busy working in his workshop. Daily, Tawan worked as a welder. He weld various iron from the junkyard to be designed into a variety of home furnishings that are orders of people.


 assisted his wife Ni Nengah Sudartini and his three children are still small. Because the condition is ill, he designed his own robot to move his left hand. With the robot, he can work. If no robot EEG was, he was not able to work.

Pain experienced by Tawan since he fell ill about six months ago. Doctors said he suffered a mild stroke, so that the left hand paralyzed. Doctors also quite surprised, because cholesterol and normal blood pressure. Moreover, he is young and normal weight.

Conditions paralyzed, had made him stress. Moreover, her family can not afford. His wife does not work, while his son is still small. However, he tried to get up. Armed with a knowledge of electronics. He was looking for information on Internet sites or similar tool to design a robot that could help move her left hand.



Tawan is an Engineering graduate STM Denpasar. The robot was largely drafted yourself of junk. There is a component of the motorcycle shock, there is also an electronic device computer from the wreckage.

Various designs had been tried, until the fifth time. Finally he wore, now robot type of EEG. '' The tool is not perfect, but is tolerable helped me. Without these tools I am completely unable to work using the left hand. However, with this assistance, menggangkat heavy loads can too. With this tool, its power is much greater, '' he said.

Tawan was demonstrated by lifting a car rim about 10 kg with a heavy right hand. But with the left hand driven robot, he raised the scrap metal it lightly. '' However, using this robot, singal drained my brain. I have to think of concentration or focus on any object that would be taken or what to do. If you do not focus, my trouble. So it is necessary to focus the brain to instruct the robot, '' he said.

Tawan-Sudartini couples, have three children. They stay behind the garage. On the rented land, they lived together, slept on cardboard. Although the condition is poor and lame, he also often visited by people. There's citizens to the police to report disturbing environment. In fact, he also pays sesabhu to his village.

Although paralyzed left hand, with the help of the robot, he did not just serve the customer in his shop home furnishings, also serving work calls. Tawan called human robot or a genius. (budana / Bali Post)

Source : http://balipost.com/read/headline/2016/01/13/42451/tawan-rancang-robot-untuk-gerakan-tangan-yang-lumpuh.html

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