The Leap Motion controller is a rather impressive little sensor bar that is capable of generating a massive 3D point cloud and recognizing hands and fingers to allow for gesture control based ...

When he learned that a distant cousin had lost both arms in an accident, leaving her reliant upon pricey but ill-fitting prosthetics, Shiva Nathan, 16, took it upon himself to try to build something ...

From talking gloves to do-it-yourself mind-controlled arms, a raft of teenage inventors are rethinking the world of prosthetics. For most of human history, prosthetics were extremely crude. Back in ...

We report the use of a bone-anchored, self-contained robotic arm with both sensory and motor components over 3 to 7 years in four patients after transhumeral amputation. The implant allowed for ...

Every quarter, UC San Diego engineers Joshua Pelz and Luca De Vivo, as well as prosthetics specialist Herb Barrack, travel to Ensenada, Mexico, where they work with amputees to provide free, ...