HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — After a month of designing, 3D-printing and making modifications, a team of high school engineering students in Hendersonville, Tennessee, built a fellow student at ...

Technology is more than just mechanisms and design -- it's ultimately about people. Adriene Simon/College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University, CC BY-SA To think about an artificial limb is to think ...

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 ...

Psyonic’s bionic prosthetic hand combines pressure sensors in the fingertips, polymer 3D printing and a carbon fiber composite outer shell. Photo Credit, all images (including the image in line with ...

Prosthetic hands have long struggled to replicate the dexterity and functionality of natural hands, often limiting users to a single grasp function at a time. This limitation has made everyday tasks, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - It's not often that you can combine book smarts with a life-lesson, but a South Bay school has manged to do both. A 9-year-old boy now has a prosthetic hand all thanks to a ...

The 3D modeling class at Almaden Country Day School is not a required course. Students can choose to take it. This year, eighth grader Sarah Vender not only chose to take the course, but she also ...

Medical device manufacturing has a reputation for demanding high upfront R&D costs. But for one med-tech start-up that reality is not getting in the way of developing a bionic hand that could restore ...

Currently, almost all powered prosthetic hands utilize electrodes that detect the user's muscle impulses and convert them into hand movements. A new system which is in development, however, should ...

STORY: This patient is feeling the warmth of touch from another person for the first time in decades. It's thanks to his new temperature-sensitive prosthetic, which is producing thermal sensations in ...

Annaliese Curtis wins MVP during a D1 National Championship game in 2022. Curtis resigned from the BYU women's rugby team this year as she prepares to graduate and take the Medical College Admission ...

Researchers found the new control system allowed five targeted muscle reinnervation, or TMR, patients to complete 10 different elbow, wrist and hand motions quickly and consistently with a virtual arm ...