James, a video games fan who uses his good right arm to play, answered an online advertisement from gaming company Konami, which was looking for an amputee interested in road-testing a futuristic prosthetic limb.

It combined ground-breaking robotics, connected to nerves and muscles in the shoulder, with state-of-the-art aesthetics to provide a unique design that reflected the wearer’s personality.

Thanks to James’s enthusiasm for video games, he fitted the brief.

His bionic arm was fitted at the London studio of prosthetics artist Sophie De Oliveira Barata, creator of the Alternative Limb Project.

Sophie, who has worked on special effects for films, designed James a bespoke metal arm with an attached plastic articulated hand worked by muscles in his shoulders.