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 ...

MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee-area software company's team building activity will impact people across the world – the people involved building much more than teamwork. A prosthetic hand will go to an ...

NOT. THERE WE GO. 20 YEAR OLD JUAN DIEGO IS IN HIS NEWBORN ERA. I LIKE THAT TOUCHING, GRABBING JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING. SHE’S A NATURAL. THANKS TO HIS NEW PROSTHETIC HAND. THE FIRST WEEK I GOT IT LIKE I ...

Scientists from Beijing Institute of Technology have developed a novel method for recognizing hand gestures in prosthetic devices using electromyography (EMG) signals. A recent breakthrough in ...

WEST BRIDGEWATER – When he awoke from a coma at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Shaun Melendy, of West Bridgewater, said a doctor was standing at the end of his cot with his parents and his ...

You can probably complete an amazing number of tasks with your hands without looking at them. But if you put on gloves that muffle your sense of touch, many of those simple tasks become frustrating.

A U.S. Army soldier is participating in a clinical trial at Walter Reed testing a neural-enabled prosthetic limb designed to restore the sense of touch.