The Mia Hand is not your typical prosthetic hand. It is a smart device that can sense the environment and adjust its grip accordingly. It can perform five different types of grasps, such as pinch ...

Sensor-covered glove could lead to better prosthetic hands Importantly, the lightweight design doesn’t sacrifice durability. Despite weighing less than one third of a kilogram and being made of an ...

In the picture an individual with a limb deficiency wears the system during familiarization. The researchers designed a soft prosthetic hand with two degrees of actuation, enabling it to perform ...

“Right now most commercial prostheses do not allow an amputee to feel with their prosthetic limb,” Jeremy Brown with the Haptics and Medical Robotics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, said.

A local charity is developing a new kind of accessible prosthetic in partnership with a B.C. Paralympian. Seven time Canadian ...

“Your hands are so unique; they’re a unique part of your body that is very fine motor skills, and a lot of prosthetics don’t have that, especially for partial fingers," said Keller.

His prosthetic fingers are already functional, but he has plans to add even more features. For instance, he is exploring ways to integrate sensory feedback into the prosthetic.

e-NABLE posts free 3D printing schematics for several prosthetic hand devices online and sells kits to assemble the prosthetics for about $25 to $35. People can use the designs to print prosthetic ...

Her left hand is fully developed; her right hand is not. Usually, her mother said, it's not an issue. "She adapts very well," Hamre said. "You wouldn't know that she was missing her fingers." ...

Researchers are recruiting people to participate in a research study (IRB00147458) on upper-limb prosthetics. Participants will use a mock prosthesis featuring sensory feedback (visual, auditory, ...