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 ...

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

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 ...

Engineers at the University of Utah have given a bionic hand a mind of its own. By equipping a commercial prosthetic with pressure and proximity sensors and training an AI neural network on natural ...

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 ...

A robotic prosthetic hand. Using a 3D printer and imaging software, this student group is designing a fully functional prosthetic replacement for a seven-year-old boy who was born without a hand. They ...

AMARILLO — Four West Texas A&M University students armed with bungee cords, fishing line and a 3-D printer have helped design an affordable mechanical hand that could help thousands of children with a ...

Psyonic’s bionic prosthetic hand combines pressure sensors in the fingertips, polymer 3D printing and a carbon fiber composite outer shell. Photo Credit, all images (including the image in line with ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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.

[Ian Davis] has decided to start over on his hand. [Ian] is missing four fingers on his left hand and has for a year now been showcasing DIY prosthetics on his YouTube channel. Back in July, we ...

Medical device manufacturing has a reputation for demanding high upfront R&D costs. But for one med-tech start-up that reality is not getting in the way of developing a bionic hand that could restore ...