She has a robot-like hand.

Lily Larimer is eight. She signs her name on a drawing using a 3-D printed hand at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville. (AP)
Lily holds Nemo, a stuffed animal. Lily was born with a right hand that was not fully formed. (AP)
The new hand for Lily was 3-D printed and decorated with a Nemo character. (AP)
Mark Larimer and daughter Lily watch as the 3-D printer lays down a layer that will eventually become her artificial hand. (AP)
Lily Larimer poses for a picture with medical students. (AP)

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Lily is eight. She was born with one hand. Now she has two!

Medical students made the new hand. They printed it on a 3-D printer. Lily calls it her “robot hand.”

READ MORE: Students at the school of medicine in Greenville, South Carolina, worked together to design Lily’s hand. Plastic was heated inside a 3-D printer. It pushed out layer after layer. The plastic formed the parts of a hand. There was a wrist, a palm, and five fingers. It took a week to print all the hand parts! Lily is thankful for her “robot hand.” God made Lily. He made you too! Psalm 139:14 says, “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”