The ability to effectively grasp and hold objects with different shapes is enabled by the hand’s capacity to preshape its fingers and adapt them to the object’s shape (i.e. preshaping and ...

When we tie our shoelaces or open a bottle of soda, we do it on autopilot, reflexively. Meanwhile, millions of people all around the world are deprived of this opportunity due to amputated limbs. Only ...

This paper presents the mechatronic design of an anthropomorphic transhumeral prosthetic arm—the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) arm—that is small enough for a 25th percentile female and ...

Kumiko is a form of Japanese woodworking that uses small cuts of wood (probably offcuts) to produce artful designs. It’s the kind of thing that takes zen-like patience to assemble, and years … ...

Nestled within the case’s foam inserts was a functioning 3D-printed model of a 500-year-old prosthetic hand. Fifteen minutes later, it broke.