Researchers at Guilin University of Electronic Technology in China have developed a new vision-integrated ...

MIT has created a soft, inflatable robotic hand that it hopes will give amputees back the tactile control that's lost with a traditional prosthetic device. Engineers on the project aim to help more ...

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, ...

For most people, sensing temperature is second nature. You grab a hot cup of coffee and instinctively pull back if it's too warm. You touch a cold glass of water and immediately register the chill.

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — After a month of designing, 3D-printing and making modifications, a team of high school engineering students in Hendersonville, Tennessee, built a fellow student at ...

Engineers from MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed a prosthetic hand that precisely inflates individual fingers to take hold of objects, while also providing the user with tactile ...

While a number of groups are developing thought-controlled prosthetic hands, most of the devices require electrodes or other relatively fiddly electronics to be implanted in the amputee's body. Such ...

Fifty years ago, the TV series "The Six Million Dollar Man" hyped a futuristic world of life-changing bionics with the stirring phrase: "We can rebuild him, we have the technology." Cut to 2023, and ...

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — After a month of designing, 3D-printing and making modifications, a team of high school engineering students in Hendersonville, Tennessee, built a fellow student at ...

when Josiah was born, we weren't really aware or prepared for what was coming. Josiah read clark was born with one hand to something that we had to educate ourselves as you know, just progressing and ...