Robotic hands have been implanted in the bodies of 5 youths who lost their hands in the July Movement. This initiative was taken with the help of the ICT Department and the Babylon Group. A program was organized in the ICT Department on Thursday in this regard. With this help, the youths are dreaming of a somewhat normal life in the new campus.

Hafez Md. Hossain Ahmed, who lost his hand in the student movement, said, “The police shot me in Jatrabari with a timing shot, meaning they stopped him. After those shots, another person fired pellets from behind.”

Like Hossain, Mamun, Sagar, Naim, and Atiqak were also implanted with artificial hands. All of them were victims of attacks by law enforcement or Awami League leaders and activists in the July Movement. Although they are fake, the youths are dreaming of a somewhat normal life with their new hands.

A victim student said, “They had axes, knives in their hands. I was beaten in my hand. Then my hand was cut off.’

Another student who lost his hand said, ‘It is better to have something (to survive) than not to have it at all. I think it will also be effective.’

Another said, ‘The country has become independent, I can speak, this is what makes me proud now.’

In the research magazine Analytics Insight, Joy Barua of Bangladesh is ranked among the top 10 young robotics researchers in the world. He is also the inventor of this hand. He said that a maximum of one kilogram can be lifted with his hand.

Joy Barua Lablu, founder and CEO of Robolife Technologies, said, ‘We have this robotic hand to do small tasks. It is not mainly for any additional work. The external beauty will increase.’

These hands were installed with the financial support of the ICT Department and Babylon Group.

ICT Secretary Sheesh Haider Chowdhury said, “We have organized this formal program so that our sense of responsibility is awakened, and if it is awakened, what is our responsibility for them?”

Depending on the quality, the cost of installing these artificial hands ranges from 30,000 to 200,000 taka. In the meantime, Joy Barua’s company Robolife Technologies has exported robotic hands to 5 countries including the United States, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.