Taking a drink. Turning a key. Swiping a credit card. For people who wear artificial arms and hands, these basic tasks can be insurmountable. Most prosthetic hands can pick up objects only between the ...

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. An artificial arm now in development ...

Team lead by Applied Physics Laboratory has come up with a prosthetic breakthrough, giving fine motor skills and sensory perception to amputees. Photos: Testing the prosthetic arm In a software-driven ...

Humans have been building prosthetics for millennia; the oldest known artificial limb is the "Cairo Toe," discovered in the tomb of a wealthy Egyptian noblewoman and thought to date to 950 BC. By the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A San Diego-based bionic company has unveiled a new prosthetic hand that doesn't just grip, but feels as well. The company’s ...

The first time Anthony Bacchus met Jamarion Styles, the then 11-year-old Styles had jumped off his bicycle, darted into Delray Beach’s Milagro Center toward the communal drum set, picked up a pair of ...

All eligible amputees will now be able to access life-changing bionic arms that can mimic real hand movements, NHS England announced Saturday. Until now, prosthetics offered to most amputees by the ...