3D打印轮椅助无腿小狗行走

A puppy born without his front legs is on the move, thanks to his 3-D printed wheelchair.

一只生来就没有前腿的小汪星人现在能走路啦！多亏了它的3D打印轮椅。

Tumbles, a six-week-old Terrier mix, was fitted with the prototype wheelchair last week, which was printed in 14 hours by the Ohio University Innovation Center, according to ABC News. 'He gets around really good. He's now starting to hop. He does that when he gets excited,' said Karen Pilcher, Tumbles' foster mother and the rescue coordinator at Friends of the Shelter Dogs in Athens, Ohio.

据ABC News报道，“小蹒跚”是一只六个礼拜大的混血猎犬，上周俄亥俄大学创新中心给它安上了用14个小时打印出来的轮椅模型。“小蹒跚”的养母兼位于俄亥俄州阿森斯“狗狗的朋友们”协会的搜救协调员凯伦·皮尔彻说：“狗狗现在可以自如地四处走动。他现在都可以跳起来了。他兴奋的时候就会这么干。”

Tumbles, who was the runt of three puppies born in October, had trouble nursing and was rescued when he was two weeks old.

“小蹒跚”是在十月份出生的，是三胎幼犬中最小的一胎，它无法进行哺乳，不过在两个礼拜大的时候被救下来了。

'He was getting pushed out by the others. We thought he wouldn't make it,' Pilcher said.

皮尔彻说：“它经常遭到其他两只狗狗的排挤。我们本以为它不能成功存活下来。”

Pilcher's husband and a friend of the shelter came up with a design for the wheelchair.They then reached out to the Ohio University Innovation Center who made the two-wheeled cart come to life with its 3-D printer, which the university got around two years ago.

皮尔彻的丈夫和收容所的一个朋友想到设计一个轮椅。随后他们找到俄亥俄大学创新中心，那里用3D打印机做出了一个两轮小车，该所大学两年前就已经着手3D打印项目了。

Tumbles, who will be put up for adoption when he is older, had his first fitting with the prototype last Tuesday.

“小蹒跚”再长大一些就可以被领养了，而且上周二就装上了它第一个轮椅模型。