A Colorado man made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) this summer when he became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously... Read more
A University of Texas at Dallas professor applied robot control theory to enable powered prosthetics to dynamically respond to the wearer’s environment and help amputees walk. In research av... Read more
A prosthetic hand, which provides a sense of touch acute enough to handle an egg, has been completed and is now exploited by the NEBIAS project after 10 years of EU-funded research. The worl... Read more
The secret lies in the ankle. Walking is tricky business, as any toddler knows. And while most artificial feet and limbs do a pretty good job restoring mobility to people who have lost a leg... Read more
Advances enable advanced prosthetic control and direct sensory feedback Since 2000, more than 2,000 servicemembers have suffered amputated limbs. DARPA’s breakthrough research with advanced... Read more
The result allows natural control of an advanced robotic prosthesis, similarly to the motions of a natural limb. For the first time an operation has been conducted, at Sahlgrenska Uni... Read more
Studies show, however, that up to 50 percent of hand amputees still do not use their prosthesis regularly due to less than ideal functionality, appearance, and controllability. For an ampute... Read more
The hand is similar to the human hand and is purely mechanical and has no electronic parts Eric Ronning, Mechanical engineering sophomore at University of Wisconsin-Madison won top prize at... Read more
The world’s first implantable robotic arm controlled by thoughts is being developed by Chalmers researcher Max Ortiz Catalan. The first operations on patients will take place this winter. Ev... Read more
She hopes the metric will become a commonly used, standard tool in the field A new validated and reliable measure of how well an adult amputee is able to perform everyday tasks with a prosth... Read more
Amputation disrupts not only the peripheral nervous system but also central structures of the brain. While the brain is able to adapt and compensate for injury in certain conditions, in ampu... Read more
“SmartHand,” resembles a real hand in function, sensitivity and appearance Scientists have successfully wired a state-of-the-art artificial hand to existing nerve endings in the stump of a s... Read more