In the Star Wars movies Doctors and medical droids are able to replace limbs with artificial prosthetics that are as good or even better than the original limb. Which is a good thing because in a ...

Pedicure costs drop 50% overnight. A pair of socks lasts twice as long. But Hugh Herr, the director of the Biomechatronics Group at the MIT Media Lab, goes a step further. “It’s actually unfair,” Herr ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Weeks after becoming the first woman nationally to be fitted with an i-limb quantum bionic arm, Lizbeth Uzcategui continues to discover — and surprise herself with — what she ...

Even when Adrian Albrich sits still, you can hear the motors in his hand whirring. Bzzzt. Vrrrt. Zyyt. Little more than a month after doctors outfitted him with a new prosthetic left hand, Albrich ...

The new i-LIMB Pulse from Touch Bionics is the latest in their range constructed with an aluminium chassis, knuckles, and dislocators. The i-LIMB Pulse’s robust design makes it Touch Bionics’ toughest ...

For an estimated two million people in the U.S. living with limb loss, commercial-grade prosthetics can be bulky, unintuitive, and still make everyday activities, like stepping over a sleeping cat, a ...

We were just talking about the incredible i-Limb hand the other day—a bionic hand controlled by nerve impulses—and here is one of its first videos in motion. We ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For years, Laiken Olive pretended. "For most of my life, I ignored the fact that I was disabled. I didn't want to be disabled, so ...

Lizbeth Uzcategui of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been training with an i-limb quantum prosthesis, which has five fully functional fingers that make it easier for her to use a mouse on her computer, ...

People who lose a limb to war, accident, or disease can choose from a remarkable array of prosthetic replacements, including legs specialized for cyclists and sprinters or arms with hands that can ...