prosthetic hand, Tag

For those with prosthetic arms, the ability to grab or hold things is greatly appreciated, but the inability to feel them -- to determine whether something is hot or cold, hard or soft -- can be frustrating...

A class of Wisconsin eight-graders designed and built a 3D-printed prosthetic hand for a six-year-old named Ariah, who was born without a right hand. Built as part of a forward-thinking robotics school program called FIRST,...

The platypus is a funny little mammal found in Eastern Australia and Tasmania. Aside from echidnas (the also-very-weird Australian spiny anteaters) they are the only living mammals that lay eggs. This bizarro egg-laying,...

A team of Italian and Swiss researchers have developed the LifeHand 2, the first artificial hand that restores a sense of touch to patients with a missing limb...

South African carpenter Richard van As suffered a woodworking accident and lost four fingers on his right hand - however instead of accepting his new disability he decided to create a set if mechanical fingers to replace...

An upgrade to the high-tech BeBionic3 prosthetic hand is enabling one man to perform incredibly sophisticated operations such as dealing cards, tying his own shoelaces and touch typing on a computer keyboard...

An anonymous man in his 20s who lives in Rome will soon receive a new hand, and for the first time in the world his bionic hand will be able to feel the things that it touches...