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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Peregrine Hawthorn breaks a finger, all he has to do is improve on the design and print a new one. The 19-year-old from Seattle was born without fingers on his left hand, but in 2013 he learned ...

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 ...

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, ...

Smart hand: The soft, elastic neuroprosthetic hand enables precise movement and delivers feedback, at a fraction of the weight and cost of comparable neuroprosthetics. (Courtesy: Xuanhe Zhao, Shaoting ...

After losing his fingers in a work-related accident, and not being satisfied with digital prosthetics, maker Ian Davis has created his very own mechanical prosthetic fingers which are capable of ...

Advancements in artificial arms and hands rarely make it out of the laboratory due to costs or impracticality. And there often seems to be more research than developments in marketable prosthetics.