As long as the funders of the prosthetic devices are not aligned on their approach, and as long as they rely on an outdated idea of basic functioning, people with limb loss will continue seeing ...

The AMI procedure has already been performed on about 60 patients worldwide, including those with arm amputations, suggesting broad applicability across different types of limb loss.

Combining two different kinds of signals could help engineers build prosthetic limbs that better reproduce natural movements, according to a new study from the University of California, Davis. The ...

(CN) — A team of Italian researchers has developed the first-ever prosthetic hand controlled by magnets, a breakthrough they say could give people more dexterity compared to existing technology.

'ENORMOUS NEED' In the fifth such course run by Ottobock since the start of the war, the Ukrainians spent three weeks learning how to make different types of prosthetics and to rehabilitate amputees.

Fabrizio Fidati, a 57-year-old amputee, uses the MiniTouch device with his prosthetic to accurately sort cubes of different temperatures. EPFL Caillet Amputees’ hopes to experience the feeling ...

Third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students at Morriss Elementary are working together to create prosthetic limbs for people who live in Uganda.