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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After teaching high school chemistry for 30 years, Steve Compton is piloting the first ever Design Engineering class at Westtown School, a private school in West Chester where high schoolers can pitch ...

image: 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.

Steven Reimer M.S. ’24 stepped back from the table after placing the final sensor on the patient’s arm. Two years of hard work had led to this moment. He had traveled 8,000 miles to Jaipur, India to ...

Computer drafting students at a Clark County school are in the middle of a special project to design and 3D print a prosthetic hand for their classmate. Donald Cordell, 18, was born without fingers on ...

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 ...

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 ...