The way we understand the movement of our own bodies plays an important role when learning physical skills, from sports to ...

A virtual forearm can bend in a blink. It can also take its time, easing toward a target as if it is thinking about the move.

Your brain might be lying to you about your new robotic leg. New research shows that users often think they're walking much ...

The way we understand the movement of our own bodies plays an important role when learning physical skills, from sports to dancing. But a new study finds this phenomenon works very differently for ...

Researchers in Europe have developed a prosthetic hand that gave an Italian man with a missing limb the ability to feel sensations of warmth and coolness when touching various objects. The new device ...

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 ...

Above-elbow and hand prosthetics represent remarkable achievements in rehabilitative technology, offering individuals comprehensive solutions to challenges of limb loss.

From Tony Stark and fanciful fiction to the real-life prostheses under development in labs around the world, bionic body parts have long promised to enhance the physical capabilities of human beings.

Salamanders, starfish, and spiders all have the same superpower: they can regrow their limbs. Sadly, humans cannot (yet), which means people with amputations have no alternative but to rely on ...

FLINT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WJRT) - Legs, arms, hands, feet , they’re parts of the body that many people take for granted. But for amputees, using a prosthetic device is the closest thing they’ll get to ...

At Chris Kort’s midtown Manhattan office, Eric has stopped by to try on his new foot. Kort, prosthetist and president of Prosthetics in Motion, has created a new, lighter device for him to try. It ...