Prosthetics designers are coming up with new ways to help people feel more comfortable in their own skin. Many mornings, Dani Clode wakes up, straps a robotic thumb to one of her hands, and gets to ...

The prosthetics field’s main problem isn’t just designing better devices — it’s the lack of data to guide which device is best for each patient, according to one executive in the space. Josh Caputo, ...

New wearable technology is coming to help patients who use prosthetic limbs. AT&T has partnered with prosthetic provider Hanger Clinic to develop a network-connected device for patients, Engadget ...

Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, is accustomed to being presented with problems people think he should solve. Usually he says no, as he was fully expecting to do when he met with a Department of ...

The past decade has been a very interesting time in the area of developing prosthetic devices which can help a person regain some of the motion and motor skills they lost because of an amputation. On ...

A new device makes it possible for a person with an amputation to sense temperature with a prosthetic hand. The technology is a step toward prosthetic limbs that restore a full range of senses, ...

Girl Scouts in Iowa develop prosthetic hand device for toddler with no fingers. May 4, 2011— -- Forget selling cookies to earn badges. Girl Scouts today build innovative biomedical devices to win ...

Cedars-Sinai investigators found a new way to control prosthetic devices using brain signals. Their preclinical findings, if confirmed in clinical studies, could help stroke survivors control external ...