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 ...

Join us as we transform simple materials into a fully functional, articulated wooden prosthetic hand using popsicle sticks ...

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 ...

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 ...

Holding an egg requires a gentle touch. Squeeze too hard, and you'll make a mess. Opening a water bottle, on the other hand, ...

An MIT-developed inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control. The smart hand is soft and elastic, weighs about half a pound, and costs a fraction of comparable prosthetics. For ...

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 ...

She has put that interest into action by developing and building a prosthetic hand that can grip and release objects. “I am really thankful our science teacher, Mr. (Scott) Dralle, allows seniors to ...

A conventional prosthetic hand may enable functions such as the ability to grip, but it lacks qualities of softness, warmth, appearance, and sensory perception, including detection of pressure, ...

To think about an artificial limb is to think about a person. It's an object of touch and motion made to be used, one that attaches to the body and interacts with its user's world. Subscribe to our ...

DEKALB, Ill. -- A Northern Illinois University student spent the summer designing a custom prosthetic to help a young violinist achieve her dream. Sarah Valentiner, 13, was born without her right hand ...