The bionic arm was invented in the late 1980s-1990s by a team of five bioengineers and Doctor David Gow. Dr. Gow and his team meet at the bioengineering Centre hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1986 to discuss the topic at hand: how to help amputees live more prosperous lives. With this in mind the next 11 years were focused on this and the outcome was magnificent. They came up with the world’s first bionic arm. The recipient of this arm was surviving cancer patient Robert Campbell Aird. He lost his arm in this fight with muscular cancer, doctors amputated his arm out of fear the cancer would spread. Leaving Aird without an arm his life was now astronomically altered, but his hopes for a better life lived on and In 1993 he was the first
