To feel what you touch — that's the holy grail for artificial limbs. In a step toward that goal, European researchers created a robotic hand that lets an amputee feel difference ...

LEEDS, England - Australian swimmer Jessica Smith has had an uneasy relationship with prosthetics since a childhood accident, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Known as "the real bionic woman," 50-year-old Karin was fitted a few years ago with an advanced robotic limb after losing her ...

At 18, Jamie Grohsong was living a dream many young athletes chase for years. He was a three-time all-conference shortstop, a Division I college prospect and a player who lived for the game. Then one ...

Researchers have built a prosthetic hand that, with the help of artificial intelligence, can act a lot more like a natural one. The key is to have the hand recognize when the user wants to do ...

Biomedical engineers at Newcastle University are giving new meaning to hand-eye co-ordination by fitting a bionic hand with a camera. Designed to usher in a new generation of smarter prosthetic limbs, ...

A UK startup called Open Bionics has just unveiled the world's first wireless bionic arm, called Hero — and it's so advanced that the hand can fully detach and amble about on its own, like the Addams ...

(CNN) — Phantom limb pain is a common problem for people who undergo amputation, and so is the ability to function even with a regular prosthetic, but a medical advance that sounds like it comes ...

While we’ve seen some extraordinary prosthetics recently—including one that is a real steampunk dream come true—a company by the name of Esper Bionics has developed a bionic hand that appears to work ...

Scientists have developed the first portable bionic hand with a sense of touch, the BBC reports. This is the first such device small enough to wear in everyday life. Previous iterations of the bionic ...

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Samoana Matagi was one of the four participants in a study that tested the capabilities of a new bionic hand. Here, Matagi wears the bionic hand on one arm and a common prosthetic called a ...