While design is crucial to make prosthetics or robot pants people actually want to wear, lessons from loyalty programs could ...

Most prosthetic hands today still struggle with a fundamental problem: No two amputees are the same, yet most devices are designed as if they are. That mismatch makes natural, intuitive control ...

Exploring wrist biomechanics for bionic hands and how natural motion principles can be replicated in biomimetic mechatronic ...

A research team led by Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic, has uncovered new insight into how the brain senses movement. Their findings, published in ...

A company that creates technologically-advanced prosthetic hands is working to advance bionic hand grip and dexterity technology for humans and robots. NBC News’ Steve Patterson reports. Coffee linked ...

It may sound like science fiction. But a San Diego-area startup, which developed an advanced prosthetic hand to help amputees regain movement and touch feedback, is now using that technology to help ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Students from three Chicago Catholic Schools; Alphonsus Academy in Lake View, St. Ann school in Pilsen and St. Malachy school on Chicago’s Near West Side, spent a day learning a ...

A Scot who came up with the idea for his start-up after breaking both his wrists in a skateboarding accident has made it onto a prestigious list of upcoming entrepreneurs. Fergal Mackie, 28, is a ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — A northwest Ohio woman who lost her arm in a crash caused by a suspect fleeing police is now among the first people in the United States to use a new type of prosthetic hand designed to ...

FORSYTH, Ga. — Body prosthetics can cost thousands of dollars, putting them out of reach for many families. A global organization called e-NABLE is working to change that by creating free, 3D-printed ...

GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) — Kai Pollnitz sat in, what he later learned, was a fake doctor’s office in North Carolina this December when a man in scrubs and a mask walked in with a shiny blue box.

Holding an egg requires a gentle touch. Squeeze too hard, and you'll make a mess. Opening a water bottle, on the other hand, needs a little more grip strength. According to the U.S. Centers for ...