NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Barry Landry taught himself to rope cattle right-handed after a factory machine crushed his left hand. The amateur rodeo cowboy couldn’t dismount and tie up calves fast enough after roping them, so he switched from calf-roping to team- roping.

He doesn’t know if his new bionic hand will let him switch back to left-handed calf-roping, but it’s already doing something his last one couldn’t: hold a plate without spilling anything.

Landry, 56, of Lafayette learned how to use it last week at Advanced Arm Dynamics in Irving, Texas.