Ciera Gray-Coleman could have given up her dream of becoming a respiratory therapist when she lost her arm in an accident.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. VR tests show autonomous prosthetic arms feel most "yours" when they move at human-like speed, about a 1-second reach. (CREDIT: ...

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Robo-dad reporting for duty. An ex-Marine and father of one who lost an arm in Afghanistan got his power back — and then some — after receiving a custom-made, superhero-like prosthetic replacement ...

David Aguilar, an inventor from Andorra known as “Hand Solo”, turned his childhood fascination with LEGO bricks into a ...

IntroductionIn this series so far, we have covered the types of prosthetic hands, costs and subsidies, the mechanism of how ...

Jason Morris is picking up a spray bottle and carrying it around the room. It sounds unremarkable, until you realize he’s wrapped his fingers around it with a prosthetic arm called Atom Touch. It’s ...

The real world is slowly but surely catching up to the standards set by science fiction. The LUKE arm, named after the character from the Star Wars franchise, has entered the market after gaining FDA ...

Engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human. The hand carefully conforms and adjusts its grasp to avoid ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in prosthetic sensory feedback. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the ...

Wilson said his new prosthetic hand could be controlled by an app on his phone, where he could change its grip to help him ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a better prosthetic hand that uses a hybrid design to carefully grip various objects with just the right amount of pressure. The robotic ...