It is the first magnetically controlled prosthetic hand that allows amputees to reproduce all movements simply by thinking and to control the force applied when grasping fragile objects. No wires, no ...

Jason Morris is picking up a spray bottle and carrying it around the room. It sounds unremarkable, until you realize he’s wrapped his fingers around it with a prosthetic arm called Atom Touch. It’s ...

For the first time, people with arm amputations can experience sensations of touch in a mind-controlled arm prosthesis that they use in everyday life. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

In 2018, Johnny Matheny became the first person to take home the world's most advanced Modular Prosthetic Limb—developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory—for a yearlong opportunity to ...

Alex Smith was 11 years old when he lost his right arm in 2003. A drunk driver operating a boat collided with his family’s vessel on Lake Austin, sending him overboard. He hit a propeller, and his arm ...

Demonstration of the robotic prosthetic ankle. Electromyographic sensors (on calf at left) capture electrical activity generated by muscles when they are flexed. This signal tells the prosthesis which ...

A new type of brain implant allows a paralyzed person to learn how to control a computer cursor with their mind. This kind of technology could be revolutionary for people with very limited mobility as ...