The Tilly Lockey story is not a normal story. Neither lived a childhood of comfort nor could he easily integrate into the groups of friends at his school. Perhaps because he lost his hands and part of his arms at 15 months of birth. What we do know is that since then it has become an example of improvement. Now armed with robotic arms straight out of a science fiction movie, this 15-year-old British girl has become one of the world's most popular bionic models. Their mission: to help create the perfect prosthetics.
He was less than a year and a half when he lost his hands to a disease called meningococcal septicemia. It is a serious bacterial infection that affects the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord and can cause multiple organ failure and ischemia in the extremities. Although the doctors gave him little chance of survival, he succeeded.
Now, with more than 70,000 followers on Instagram and 25,000 subscribers on YouTube, Tilly Lockey is not only a beauty vlogger, she also travels the world giving lectures telling her story in order to help other people who have suffered amputations. But what she is most excited about is being a bionic prosthetic model and helping in their development.
This young woman is now walking the streets with her new superhero prosthetics. But it was not always like this. "The hands that I had before could only open and close and they moved very slowly, which made it practically impossible to use them for everyday things," he recalls. For a couple of years, he has been using prostheses designed by the British company Open Bionics, with whom he works to design future models.