Mechanical arm
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- Shortcode
:mechanical_arm:- Unicode
U+1F9BE- HTML
🦾- CSS
\1F9BE- JavaScript
"\u{1F9BE}"- URL
%F0%9F%A6%BE
What ๐ฆพ means
A robotic arm. ๐ฆพ stands for prosthetic arms and accessibility, and also for superhuman, cyborg strength.
Amputees and disability advocates use it to talk about prosthetics and adaptive tech. Others use it as an upgraded ๐ช: "powered up," "unstoppable," or a nod to robots and engineering.
Facts
Mechanical arm ๐ฆพ is an emoji in the people and body category, under body parts. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :mechanical_arm:. People also look for it with words like โaccessibilityโ, โarmโ, โmechanicalโ, or โprostheticโ.
Timeline
- 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2019
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.