People who have prosthetic hands today rely on being able to see what the hand is doing to control it, said Sliman Bensmaia, an associate professor of neuroscience at the University of Chicago.

The research team adapted a commercially developed prosthetic named the "LUKE arm" — after the robotic hand the character Luke Skywalker got in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back. TED ...

The end result is a hand that is much quicker to use than contemporary prosthetics — up to 10 times faster than others on the market, say the researchers. The system is also cheap.

Igor Spetic lost his right hand in an industrial accident four years ago, but when he wears the prosthetic hand, the device stimulates the nerves in his upper arm, allowing him to feel.

According to the Amputee Coalition, more 100,000 people living in the U.S. have amputated hands or arms. The young man on whom the experiment was performed was not missing an arm or hand, but he was ...

Scientists Create First Prosthetic Arm That Transmits Sensation: 'You Can Feel Your Partner Hold Your Hand' After losing her arm in a motorcycle accident, Claudia Mitchell worked with a research ...

Creating a prosthesis robust enough to slam down its opponent’s hand in an arm-wrestling match is just one part of a long-term vision that St. Pierre’s opponent and Psyonic CEO, Aadeel Akhtar ...

The retired US Army sergeant — who had lost his right arm below the elbow in 2005 while on patrol in Iraq — couldn't tell how much pressure he was applying with his prosthetic hand. It's a ...

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Dalilah Ruvalcaba never needed a right hand, but last summer, she decided she wanted a change. The 10-year-old was born without half of her right arm. When Dalilah started to consider a potential ...

Now, it may also be possible for prosthetic hands to send signals back to the body and “tell” it information about what the bionic hand is touching, according to a new study.