Wtf people everyone's complaining about an ad at the end of the video when they need the money to give kids free prosthetic arms, wow

"Hug with two hands" Jesus Christ, right in the feels.

5:45 "We don't feel like people should profit from a child without an arm" That hit me right in the feels :3

"Hug with two hands"....something we all take for granted

"I wan't to hug with two hands" "I want to give 106 high fives!" best wishes ever!

Awesome!

4:25 "I'm really excited right now about doing somersaults....and hugging with two hands" Gah, I just broke

Producing something like that for 300 dollars. Holy lord almighty, science is awesome.

Amazing... "We don't think people should profit from a child without an arm" Wow

If a 20 second ad at the end of a video about a breakthrough in prosthetic arms bothers you, you need to set your priorities straight.

"We don't feel like people should be profiting from a child without an arm." Great line right there.

Why the heck would anybody dislike this video?

My heart melted when the little boy said " …and hug with two hands" oh my goodness the feels

Yeah... Nice Microsoft Productplacement... Good cause though.

This is the reason I love the scientific spirit: it's all about collaboration and union within the species and with nature. If only we didn't live in a world where progress was limited by money (or a lack of it). But in some ways, that makes the endeavour all the more commendable and inspiring. Thanks for this :)

Why is this not on the main-stream news media ? Because no one is profiteering from it. These guys rock

That's fantastic. What a truly rewarding thing to be a part of.

the trouble with prosthetics that some people dont realize is that EVERY, SINGLE, ONE, of them has to be custom designed to fit the recipient. its not like clothes where it just has to kind of fit. not everyone has the same body size or the same amount of missing limb. the ability to quickly make custom designs with 3d printers is surely what will solve this problem. in a few decades all you will hav to do is get your nerves mapped out and body measured then in 6-8 business weeks youll hav a limb.

I'm hoping I can help as many people as they do when I graduate high school. It's a great feeling to see the smiles on these kids faces

600 people don't like 3D printers and kids having arms

Why would anyone dislike this? If someone dislikes this, that implies that they're against making 3-D printed arms that are sponsored by Microsoft.

I think this is fantastic, the Microsoft ad is appropriately placed they helped make this content available for us. Keep up the work great cause. Seeing the kids brightened up my day.

Faith in humanity restored :D

"We don't feel like people should profit from a child without an arm" I have my arms and legs but still I really want to say thank you when hearing this statement. our world needs more good people~ thank you~~~~

What kind of sick broken people thumbs downed this?!?! For shame...

Is this an endorsement for Microsoft OneNote? Yes. Does that matter? Not really. The point of this video is the use of technology to improve the lives of others. I fully support this group making affordable prosthetics, esepcially for children, and if they can get more funding or financial help and more exposure through a Microsoft OneNote endorsement, more power to them. This is incredible.

Well, that's handy.

As an aspiring biomedical engineer, this video puts me on hype mode

Yay Microsoft ad... Way to ruin an awesome thing.

This feels a lot like I'm being advertised to. I checked the description and apparently it's a sponsored video? This tech is amazing, but the video is still giving me this skeevy vibe.

I've seen a few vids about Albert and his team, and the work they are doing to make prosthetics more easily available to the kids that need them, and I've literally been moved to tears by what they are doing. Albert and co., keep doing what you are doing. You are all amazing. Best wishes x

There is this high school grad who designed and built a prosthetic arm that is connected to 12 channels in the brain and can use articulated movements. And it is really cheap. I'm happy to see young adults trying to push the prosthetic industry forward. It hits me right in the feels.

Gotta be honest, I don't think they've solved a problem that others couldn't, I think they've just made a cheapo version of the real thing, and it's not even an advancement in anything, big deal, they are getting on the 3D printing hype train 5 years late. Like, it's fine for giving kids confidence and it's clearly a good thing as it makes them happy, but it looks like you could fall and all of the fingers would just break into pieces, and the demo of it gripping was on an empty water bottle? Is that all it can grasp and lift? Or was that just all they had at the time to demo it to the millions that could see this video? The real problem is the robotic arms that cost 50 grand only cost so much because of the research and development that goes in to them, and there is no infrastructure in place to manufacture them on a large scale. And the companies that are making these arms aren't looking to sell them on a large scale, instead they are just constantly making new versions and improving, and there is nothing special about them mechanically, the physical materials and technology are going to be pretty cheap. So if we want people to have well built functioning arms then somebody needs to push the development of bionic arms and get them down to a reasonable price, and while it's great for these kids, in the big picture making a barely functional cheapo version out of plastic is like putting a plaster on a knife wound.

7:07 what an amazing young gentleman.

Damn...it really chokes me up when I hear the kid at 4:23. To think hugging with two hands is that important to him it really does mean a lot. I feel for that kid and hope he gets to achieve all that he rightfully desires.

These guys are Real Heroes.... Just Unbelievable And Amazing!

The device on which you are watching this video is the product of millions of people working to better their circumstance, i.e., for their own profit. In fact, if profit weren't a part of the equation, then you wouldn't even have this device. Why hurl shame at are our benefactors? The company that solves the affordable prosthetic problem deserves the billions coming their way.

To all you haters about the Microsoft Product placement... These videos require funding, they are not free, and he's not paying for them out of pocket . Lastly it still a accomplishes a great goal of spreading awareness, so take your childish troll attitude and GTFO.

I know a team of 3 students from ASU who did the same thing last year... It's amazing what technology enables us to create

"We don't think that anyone should profit off a kid who is missing an arm." That quote right there restored a little hope in humanity. It is amazing what can be accomplished when people stop being so damn greedy.

Can all of the people complaining about Microsoft just stop? Does the fact that they're sponsored really affect what they're doing? Actually it does. It _helps_ what they're doing. The video is good, what they're doing is good, so I don't know why them getting funded by Microsoft is something to be mad about.

Faith in humanity restored This kind of action gives me hope for the future, maybe one day human won't live for profit anymore, but will live life as such This video brought a tear to my eyes, I just hope that economics people won't try to benefit from this, which will not happen..

how grateful it is, we are really lucky to live around those amazing people (i just got in high school, i kind of what to try something like this when i go to university, try to use what i've learned to make the world a better place:)

I think it is awesome that the other kids didn't bully him, but actually think he is cool... this can be a great deal for the kid accepting himself as part of society and deal better with his situation.

Probably the most useful youtube channel. Great work, Derek. Greetings from India :)

I'd prefer a comment at the start of this sort of video saying that it's sponsored by Microsoft.

Those kids are tough. I can't imagine what life would be like without being able to even play video games. Those things are part of what made me. I feel so touched.

.. I so wish we lived in a world where people do, nothing BUT help one another in such an amazing way! Thanks guys! You make the world a better place, for people who deserve everything positive in their lives... children!

The level of ignorance and self-righteousness in just the first 5 top comments is disgusting. 3,000,000+ children live daily with a missing limb, yet you're focused on the fact the video contained a whopping 10 seconds of product placement. Are you kidding me? Say "Microsoft" between every other word for all I care if Microsoft is helping fund and/or spread the word about this amazing organization. Love or hate Microsoft, they're doing a good thing. And by sponsoring this video, at the moment of writing this, at least 100,000 more people now know this organization exists, which is a WIN for the children whose lives are changed for the better because of them. Did you not see the amount of joy and appreciation in the kid's face when he leaped out of his chair to give Derek a hug? I teared up seeing how genuinely grateful he was. To see so many people focus on the product placement really saddens me.

with these upgrades, you never stood a chance.

When the kid said he was exited to hug with two arms, I cried

Ok. This is the one thing I have seen on the internet that has restored my hope in humanity. Most of the stuff we hear about is esoteric development that has no future outside of a lab, within a human lifespan anyway, or all of the things that we are doing to destroy our world for our great-great-grandchildren. Thank you so much Veritasium for showing this to the world... we kind of needed it.

550 pirates disliked this vidio :P

Mr. Gates is actually helping. Absolutely nice.

It's really heart warming to know that people are doing such good things in the world with new tech. :D

My alma mater. I was super proud UCF was in national news for this. Having one of the largest student body it's not like they need the advertisement. But UCF has one of the best engineering programs in the country. With top notch internships and recruitments: Siemen, Lockheed, Northrop, NASA, Disney and Universal.

Some people develop 3D printed guns while others produce 3D printed prosthetics. I know which contribution to the world I'd be happiest to make.

Totally should've asked a the end of the video, "What do you have to say to the people that think you're limited because of the way you were born?" and then one of the kids should've flipped off the camera with his prosthesis. The ideas you get at midnight man, I should really be sleeping right now.

Even simple hugs , high-five , shake hand , can be someone's dream which we never take seriously.... Don't complain for not having something and be thankful for what you have.

"I don't feel like people should profit from a child that doesn't have an arm." dem words don made mi cry.

Nice hidden Microsoft commercial. Don't think we didn't notice...

I actually want to know what if feels like to have a little stub for an arm. Or what the stub feels like.

The ending hug was nice. The kid is mature for his age. Which is Always the case for people who go through hardships. And probably those arms will help them find a part of what a normal childhood should be. It is important to understand how to allow them to have a childhood nevertheless. I don't know what does childhood mean and never will, and it will always make me think"maybe that's why" in specific social situations.

This makes me unbelievably happy, and proud of humanity, and proud of the downtrodden for their strength and proud of creators for their altruism and just, proud of what it means to be human.

flashlight on those arms?

Wow, honestly people. If it were any other company sponsoring this project and funding the stuff these guys are trying to achieve here, would you guys be so butthurt about it? Microsoft has got the money and the power to do something about this problem, yet you are too shortsighted to notice that they are actually HELPING. This video actually restored my hope in humanity a bit. Until i read the comment section... Yup, we're screwed...

One of the creators/engineers that helped create this came to our school and gave us a speech and presentation. He did actually talk about Alex.

"We don't feel like people should profit off a kid with no arm." That is one of the most amazing things I ever heard

Why in hell are you guys so pissed by this small Microsoft ad? Did you ever thought about the costs of making videos like this. This ad doesnt hurt anyone and simply makes more content possible on this channel. If you guys watched some videos on this channel you should know, that they don't produce videos only for making money.

First time I've heard someone say that 3D printing is cheap

It’s been seven years and I haven’t heard of anybody else getting that kind of arm. Why not?

This is the kind of stuff that gets me excited for college. Making a difference in the world. Creating things to help people out

It's sort of interesting how he keeps touching his stump (is stump the correct term these days? Probably not, huh?). I don't know why I find it interesting, but, well, there it is. On another note, I remember seeing some sort of video about bebionic prosthetic limbs, which use a similar method to control the hand (muscles on upper arm to open and close hand) and at the time I wondered why nobody had done it before or done it cheaper. I'm assuming the answer to the latter has something to do with patents.

Is Deus Ex one day possible? That we can fully control the mechanical limbs

I don't even mind the OneNote product placement, because that software really does rock.

The little guy got another 3d printed bionic arm a few months ago. It was designed to look like Iron Man's arm and it was given to him by Robert Downey Jr. in character as Tony Stark. I know it was probably just a publicity stunt for the actor, but hell - the kid was born without an arm and now he's Iron Man. How awsome is that?

Beginning of advanced warfare 😅

I almost wanna cut my arm off. (Not really.) but still awesome though.

Just cried a little. Good to know there are people that think not only about the money but other people´s happiness.

My little brother has a little arm. He has prosthetics. This video was awesome and he loved watching it with me

who the freak thumbs down a project like this??

"we don't feel like people should profit from children without an arm" - wonderful, however, the profit motive of gaining & maintaining a differential advantage others needs to be retired, it is an inefficient way to distribute resources, erodes collaborative efficiency & produces excessive concentrations of wealth. We are faced with what to replace capitalism with in the context of a technological post scarcity society. The best proposed socioeconomic system I'm aware of today is a "Resource Based Economy"

I just wanna cry for these kids. I feel so bad for then they must have so much embarrassment going into school without an arm and I really feel for them

the video game kid was amazing! he wants to be able to play video games! but also hug someone with both arms! that's sweet and amazing and i hope that it comes true and we keep up the advancements!

hahaHAHAHA some help me cut my arm off

Who could dislike this, you are the cruel people of world who destroy peoples dreams. Im very greatful happy see smiles child and adult have new proposed arm or leg they receive. Skys the limit maybe one day science will be joke so people dont have look down on others, world is one being itself so treat her as you do to yourself not hard.

Thin cables in kevlar that cover elastic meshes in carbon and that in turn cover fibres for for the passage of electrical signals.

OK this is awesome, I love how they aren't try to hide that it's a prosthetic, and that there just rocking it. I mean if i saw a kid in my school with one of these, I would want to be his friend! And the fact that they can get custom ones is so cool. If I got one it would be a termanator arm or if possible an arm that has wolverine claws!

"We don't think people should profit from a child without an arm" slap bang in the middle of a *HUGE* Micro$oft advert, not good, not good at all ;^

01:07 WHAT ARE TOESSS!!!!!

"...I want to hug with two hands." Wow, that was beatifull!

A good back-story to help small teams produce low-cost prosthetics. Good filming of the basic technical approach (without being too complex) and good user-interviews!

I was completely on-board with this video until it turned into a Microsoft advertisement. See, I'm one of those people who are annoyed by ads, and they create a negative reaction in me. It's awesome that Microsoft is getting involved with this project, but I don't need them paying people to tell me how great their products are. I quit watching this video around the 5-minute mark.

Amazing development!

Can't wait to see where 3D printing and science will take us in say, another 10 years.

this is so nice to watch those kids have the oppetunity to have a second arm

CoolAs The economy is going to be so different in 10 - 20 years because of 3D printing technology.

I really want one of these

Imagine printing that in all sorts of cool colors and stuffs. Amazing! Revolutionary!

I love the little Microsoft one note advert