If you wear glasses, you may have realized your visual deficit can also be an unexpected style boon. Thanks to a company combining wearable robotics with stunning (and newly award-winning) design, the ...

HENDERSONVILLE, Ten. (WKRC/WTVF/CBS Newspath) -After a month of hard work, a team of high school engineering students in Tennessee built a fellow student at their school a robotic prosthetic hand. In ...

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 new prosthetic from Arizona State University and Florida International University provide the user with the physical sensation of touch. Prosthetic hands have made impressive strides in recent years ...

This prosthetic hand and socket uses AI, with the hand controlled by the Cybernetic Interface attached to the socket. Researchers at the Biological Systems Engineering Lab at Hiroshima University have ...

Prosthetic hands have long struggled to replicate the dexterity and functionality of natural hands, often limiting users to a single grasp function at a time. This limitation has made everyday tasks, ...

Upper-limb amputees often struggle with everyday tasks due to their limited dexterity. The existing prosthetic hands often lack the fine motor skills and natural movement required for truly ...

Prostheses are having a renaissance. Amputees with $10,000 or more can strap on a mechanical hand that they can actually control with their thoughts, much like they’re using a biological hand. But the ...

This coming Saturday, three local girls, Nile, Brienna and Katelyn, will receive prosthetic hands thanks to WNY STEM, which sponsors the Hand in Hand program. This incredible program almost sounds too ...

Seven-year-old Briella Dennee has big plans for her new prosthetic hand: like flying a kite for the first time and practicing her handstand. The Buffalo second-grader, born with one hand, hadn’t used ...

Each year, thousands of people around the world lose a hand or finger, often due to accidents, war, natural disaster or illness. After this loss, accessing and affording traditional prosthetic devices ...

After months of anticipation, a young boy who lost most of his fingers in a fiery and deadly car crash is the owner of two new prosthetic hands made just for him by a team of Cal Poly engineering ...