Prosthetic limbs have come a really long way from being peg legs, hooks, and whatnot. The most advanced ones right now are often imbued with advanced robotics, which offer far more function and a ...

A virtual forearm can bend in a blink. It can also take its time, easing toward a target as if it is thinking about the move. In a new virtual reality study, both extremes felt wrong. When a ...

Lexy was a producer and on-air presenter who covered consumer tech, including the latest smartphones, wearables and emerging trends like assistive robotics. She won two Gold Telly Awards for her video ...

Using augmented reality for prosthetic training can mimic rehabilitation therapy’s repetitive exercises and tap into the ...

Jacob George, a biomedical engineering doctoral student at the U, and Gregory Clark, Ph.D., a biomedical engineering associate professor at the U, with the LUKE arm. Keven Walgamott had a good ...

Claudia Mitchell had been out of the Marine Corps just a few months when she hopped on the back of a friend's motorcycle in 2004. He lost control of the bike, and Mitchell ended up losing her kidney, ...

Some prosthetics require users to flex their muscles to make simple movements. An Atom Limbs prosthesis taps into the signals their brain is sending. Segway Inventor Creates Revolutionary ...

A glove and armband that gives people with upper limb prosthetics a sense of touch through haptic feedback is in development at the University of Bath, with unique at-home trials set to begin in the ...

The robotics students began by studying Samantha’s condition and limitations. IMAHelps volunteers in Ecuador provided photos and video of Samantha, along with her measurements. Team members then ...

FRISCO, Texas — At 7 years old, Siddarth Nandyala's parents bought him his first STEM kit. They never realized it would lead their son to becoming an inventor and entrepreneur at a young age. Now 13, ...

A British man is the owner of perhaps the most convenient smartphone dock in existence. It’s actually a slot embedded in 50-year-old Trevor Prideaux’s prosthetic arm, custom made to fit his Nokia C7 ...