Fabrizio wasn't sure what to expect of his newly outfitted prosthetic hand, until he touched one of the researchers who'd given it to him. "When one of the researchers placed the sensor on his own ...

Recent advancements in technology have revolutionized the world of assistive and medical tools, and prosthetic limbs are no exception. We've come a long way from the rigid, purely cosmetic prosthetics ...

A U.S. Army soldier is participating in a clinical trial at Walter Reed testing a neural-enabled prosthetic limb designed to ...

Recent rapid advances in neuroprosthetics—robotic prosthetic limbs that connect directly to the nervous system—suggest that it’s only a matter of time before bionic arms are commonplace. But the more ...

Researchers in Europe have developed a prosthetic hand that gave an Italian man with a missing limb the ability to feel sensations of warmth and coolness when touching various objects. The new device ...

(This Sept. 21 story has been corrected to fix the surname of the engineer in paragraphs 6 and 8) LA PAZ (Reuters) - Six years ago, Richard Vargas lost his hands in a dynamite explosion - a common ...

Extremely realistic-looking prosthetic eyes can now be 3D-printed in a fraction of the time it would normally take to produce the eyes by hand, scientists demonstrate in a new study. This 3D-printing ...

Steven Reimer M.S. ’24 stepped back from the table after placing the final sensor on the patient’s arm. Two years of hard work had led to this moment. He had traveled 8,000 miles to Jaipur, India to ...

Nigel Ackland can open beer bottles, pour drinks into a glass and delicately crack eggs into mixing bowls. So far, so normal. But the former precious metals smelter, who lost his right arm after an ...

Researchers in Italy have taken a big step forward towards restoring realistic hand functions to amputees. The development team, based at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), say that their ...

LA PAZ, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Six years ago, Richard Vargas lost his hands in a dynamite explosion - a common occurrence in Bolivia, where the explosive is so prevalent a senator once suggested ...