A Bristol-based roboticist has developed a robotic prosthetic hand using 3D-printed components that costs as little as £650, which is much cheaper than existing technology. Joel Gibbard first came up ...

A group of middle schoolers in Warsaw is making a prosthetic hand for their classmate.This creative project is led by students is proving to be life-changing fo ...

CAMAS – The Camas Lions Club recently completed The Hand Project, a service initiative providing prosthetic hands to four individuals in Ethiopia. The demand for upper limb prostheses in developing ...

Two humanitarian workers who spent the last ten days in Koshi Province fitting prosthetic hands for amputees say Nepal surprised them, not just with its landscapes, but with its people, their trust ...

The field of neuroprosthetics has advanced significantly in recent years, but the technology is still nowhere near accessible enough to make a difference in the lives of most amputees. However, a new ...

It only took a few weeks for Rice’s e-NABLE chapter to receive its first-ever assignment in 2020: 3D print a prosthetic hand for a 5-year-old patient at Texas Children’s Hospital. Sophomore ...

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 ...

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 a group of six Binghamton University biomedical engineering students launched a collaboration to create a functional biomechanical hand using 3-D printing technology one year ago, their thoughts ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A few months ago, a fifth grade student at Lakeshore Elementary in Humble noticed a much younger student. The little boy was born without one hand, and Mehkhi Blue made a ...

Currently, almost all powered prosthetic hands utilize electrodes that detect the user's muscle impulses and convert them into hand movements. A new system which is in development, however, should ...