If you wear glasses, you may have realized your visual deficit can also be an unexpected style boon. Thanks to a company combining wearable robotics with stunning (and newly award-winning) design, the ...

Scientists have developed a robotic prosthetic hand that offers precision fingertip control. The ultra-light system offers shape-adaptive gripping through simple motion commands. Using an innovative ...

Prostheses are having a renaissance. Amputees with $10,000 or more can strap on a mechanical hand that they can actually control with their thoughts, much like they’re using a biological hand. But the ...

This prosthetic hand and socket uses AI, with the hand controlled by the Cybernetic Interface attached to the socket. Researchers at the Biological Systems Engineering Lab at Hiroshima University have ...

Recent advancements in technology have revolutionized the world of assistive and medical tools, and prosthetic limbs are no exception. We've come a long way from the rigid, purely cosmetic prosthetics ...

Engineers at the University of Utah have given a bionic hand a mind of its own. By equipping a commercial prosthetic with pressure and proximity sensors and training an AI neural network on natural ...

GLASGOW, Ky. — A Barren County teacher is being called a hometown hero for the months of work he's spent working on a project for one of his students. Earlier this week, Red Cross Elementary ...

She has put that interest into action by developing and building a prosthetic hand that can grip and release objects. “I am really thankful our science teacher, Mr. (Scott) Dralle, allows seniors to ...

Cal Poly’s Quality of Life Plus Student Association is changing lives. Last year, fourth-year mechanical engineering student Ryan Kissinger was assigned to the task of interviewing around 70 ...