What does 🦾 Mechanical Arm mean?
Robotic and flexed like 💪, this mechanical arm belongs to a set of accessibility emojis. It represents people who use prosthetic arms, as well as advances in assistive technology. It also shows up in tech chats about robots, cyborgs and engineering, and as a futuristic way to say you feel unstoppable. Unlike most body parts, it does not come in skin tones.
🦾 Mechanical Arm is an emoji from the People & Body category (body parts), added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. People use it in messages about accessibility and prosthetic.
Example messages
🦾 Mechanical Arm on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Mechanical Arm looks on each platform.
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Mechanical Arm emoji: questions & answers
How do I copy and paste the Mechanical Arm emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🦾 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :mechanical_arm:.
When was the Mechanical Arm emoji added?
🦾 Mechanical Arm was added in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🦾 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Mechanical Arm. The underlying code (U+1F9BE) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.