Former bike mechanic and navy veteran Colin MacDuff made national headlines this spring for the incredible cycle shop feat of essentially turning eight hours of middle-of-the-night sawing and welding ...

The new flexing prosthetic finger developed by Medical Art Prosthetics addresses this challenge with a unique body-driven articulation design: the prosthetic middle finger flexes and extends in tandem ...

A NEW TYPE OF PROSTHETIC IS GIVING PARTIAL FINGER AMPUTEES MORE INDEPENDENCE. — SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - In just 10 minutes, life went from normal to forever changed for Allyson Watson. “The sheriff came to ...

Above-elbow and hand prosthetics represent remarkable achievements in rehabilitative technology, offering individuals comprehensive solutions to challenges of limb loss.

It can hold a credit card, use a keyboard with the index finger, and lift a bag weighing up to 20 kg -- the world's first commercially available prosthetic hand that can move each finger separately ...

Physicians and biomedical engineers from Johns Hopkins report what they believe is the first successful effort to wiggle fingers individually and independently of one another using a mind-controlled ...

Dylan Laas, 12, says Robohand makes him look like Darth Vader. For $150, the 3-D printed Robohand also lets Dylan, who is missing the fingers on one hand as a result of Amniotic Band Syndrome, grab ...

After Darth Vader lopped off Luke Skywalker’s hand in the movie “The Empire Strikes Back,” Rebel Alliance doctors installed a prosthetic that immediately moves and feels just like a human hand.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (Army News Service, Feb. 1, 2012) -- A robotic arm, dubbed "Luke," after the Jedi with the mechanical hand, served as the centerpiece for a Jan. 31 discussion here regarding ...

In a collaboration between Swedish and Italian researchers, the aim was to analyse how the brain interprets information from a virtual experience of touch, created by a finger prosthesis with ...

Using the mind to control prosthetic limbs is a bold idea that is slowly becoming a reality thanks to several important advances in neuroscience and robotics in the last couple of years. Now a team of ...