A Utah family is hoping their insurance company will reconsider a recent decision that denied their daughter a “life-changing” new prosthetic. Remi Bateman, 9, was born without a hand below the elbow, ...

A new robotic hand resembles a beloved character from the Addams Family franchise. Like the sentient human hand called Thing, ...

Ten years ago, Easton LaChappelle was a teen watching YouTube videos in his Colorado bedroom on how to build robot arms from LEGOs. Today, he's the founder of Unlimited Tomorrow, a company that ...

SANTA FE, Argentina (Reuters) - A laboratory in the Argentine farm province of Santa Fe has developed what it calls the first prosthetic arm in Latin America to use sensors to respond to nerve ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 17-year-old in Virginia is making headlines for creating an affordable prosthetic arm that can be controlled by the mind.

It is projected that there are more than 57 million amputees worldwide and only about 5 percent of them have access to prosthetic care and technology. Those that do have access to prostheses are often ...

WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of a robotic arm for amputees that is named for the "Star Wars" character Luke Skywalker and can perform ...

I’M CAROL CLARK. IN A SPECIAL NEWS FOR YOUR HEALTH. FOR MANY GRADUATES, IT’S BEEN AN INTENSE FEW MONTHS OF FINAL PROJECTS AND REPORTS. BUT FOR ONE LOCAL STUDENT, THAT SENIOR PROJECT WAS A REAL LABOR ...

Few entrepreneurs can claim as intimate a connection to their products as Jonathan Kuniholm. As an engineer working at the forefront of some of the latest research to improve prosthetic arms, Kuniholm ...

Scientists have developed a robotic prosthetic that offers new hope for patients suffering from traumatic spinal injuries. Researchers at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Russia ...