In a world first, doctors in Sweden say they’ve wired a prosthetic hand directly into a woman’s nerves, allowing her to move its fingers with her mind and even feel tactile sensations. The hand is an ...

A research paper by scientists at The University of Electro-Communications developed a new socket and prosthetic hand control system that does not interfere with the wrist joint motion. This allows ...

A prosthetic hand for children that is powered and controlled by the wearer's breathing has been developed by scientists at Oxford University. Researchers say the simple lightweight device is not too ...

Engineers from MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed a prosthetic hand that precisely inflates individual fingers to take hold of objects, while also providing the user with tactile ...

Lacey Fredrick, who lost her arm in a 2023 crash involving a police pursuit, is pioneering the use of a new prosthetic hand, ...

Yes, a hand with an eye embedded in it does sound a whole lot like one of the freakier scenes from Guillermo del Toro’s movie Pan’s Labyrinth. But it also describes a new smart prosthesis being ...

Researchers in Italy have taken a big step forward towards restoring realistic hand functions to amputees. The development team, based at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), say that their ...

At a lab at Johns Hopkins University, researchers are building a prosthetic hand unlike any other: It can sense pain. It’s easy to understand why you might want a prosthesis that can feel the ...

GLASGOW, Ky. (WBKO/Gray News) - A teacher created a 3-D printed prosthetic hand for a 4th-grade student. Red Cross Elementary School STEAM teacher Scott Johnson designed, printed and assembled the ...

Researchers have developed a next-generation bionic hand that allows amputees to regain their proprioception. The results of the study are the culmination of ten years of robotics research. The ...

Researchers have built a prosthesis that enabled a man who lost his hand to text, pluck grapes from their stems, and stuff a pillow into its case. ByKatherine J. Wu Friday, July 26, 2019 NOVA NextNOVA ...