Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for the development of assistive and medical tools, including ...

Researchers are paving the way for the design of bionic limbs that feel natural to users. They demonstrate the connection between hand movement patterns and motoneuron control patterns. The study, ...

HEFEI -- A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has unveiled a groundbreaking biomimetic prosthetic hand with high dexterity, which is capable of combing hair, ...

UChicago scientists are making major progress on a technology designed to give nuanced “feeling” to prosthetic hands, by ...

A lawsuit challenging Cigna Health & Life Insurance Co.'s denial of coverage for man’s specialized prosthetic device is ...

OpenBionics puts a spin on today’s approach to prosthetics, putting forth a framework of tools that’s flexible enough to fit the spectrum of hand shapes and enables us to create our own ...

A soft robotic hand that feels and moves like a real human hand is developed by researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)and Imperial College London. Traditional prosthetic hands are ...