The cost will be about the same or less than a body-powered prosthetic hook, which currently costs around $25,000. "It's a satisfaction that you just can't explain," Morris said as he described ...

A typical prosthetic arm still looks essentially the way it has for more than a century, with a simple hook that can open and close to squeeze and hold objects.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- The University of Pittsburgh is making headway in the field of prosthetics. Researchers are in the process of creating a prosthetic arm that has feeling. Pat Bayne, 71, of New ...

A nine-year-old amputee who raised $30k for a prosthetic arm denied by her insurers is paying it forward – and giving the ...

All of this is crucial information for a prosthetic arm to feel like the real thing. The researchers say that three Swedish patients have now lived with the device for between three and seven years.

She got her first prosthetic arm through the VA in 2005. "They did the very best they could with the technology that was available at the time," she recalls.

During his final semester at college, Vitaliy Bondarchuk created a multitool prosthetic arm, which is more than just a senior project — it's also a way to help his 7-year-old sister Bella.

The prosthetic hand must also learn how to "feel" the object in order to know how much pressure to exert because you can't figure that out just by looking at it. First, the prosthetic arm has sensors ...

The reference here was to David W. Dorrance (1856-1933), who developed a prosthetic device, the first of several, in the 1890s. The inscription on this prosthetic hook reads “DORRANCE / PATENTED”. Ref ...

A father from Massachusetts, who lost part of his arm to cancer as a teenager, is now able to hold his daughter thanks to a high-tech bionic hand known as the iLimb. NECN’s Ally Donnelly reports.

Baseball's been a big part of Hanson's life. When he was 8-years-old, he didn’t use his prosthetic arm much, because he had already taught himself how to adapt and use his right arm and residual ...