When we tie our shoelaces or open a bottle of soda, we do it on autopilot, reflexively. Meanwhile, millions of people all ...

Yet, such artifacts are rare direct sources into the lives of historical amputees. We focus on the tools amputees used in 16th- and 17th-century Europe. There are few records written from amputees’ ...

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.

Auburn University researchers have replicated a 500-year old prosthetic hand and demonstrate its usability half a millennia later.

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 … ...

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 ...