Paralympic snowboarder, Mike Schultz, who just won bronze at the Milan Cortina Paralympics, designed and built his own high-performance prosthetic after his leg was amputated from a snowmobile race ...

In the new study, Apple taught an AI model to recognize hand gestures that weren’t part of its original training dataset.

The BIT-UEC-Hand developed in this study consists of a hand, a controller, an EMG sensor, a battery, and a socket. The hand was developed in a joint research project between the University of ...

FORSYTH, Ga. — Body prosthetics can cost thousands of dollars, putting them out of reach for many families. A global organization called e-NABLE is working to change that by creating free, 3D-printed ...

Holding an egg requires a gentle touch. Squeeze too hard, and you'll make a mess. Opening a water bottle, on the other hand, needs a little more grip strength. According to the U.S. Centers for ...

WARSAW, Ind. — A group of young creators in Warsaw is pushing the limits of 3-D printing and helping out a middle school classmate at the same time, WSBT in South Bend reports. Owen Lewis has been ...

The White House on Thursday morning outlined the plan for Operation Epic Fury in Iran. Nick Martinelli scores 28 and Northwestern defeats Indiana 74-61 at Big Ten Tournament CHICAGO (AP) — Nick ...

A clinical trial participant shows his neural-enabled prosthetic arm at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Maryland, Oct. 22, 2025. (Ann Brandstadter/DOD) A U.S. soldier participating in a ...

Modern bionic hand prostheses nearly match their natural counterparts when it comes to dexterity, degrees of freedom, and capability. And many amputees who tried advanced bionic hands apparently ...

Researchers have built a prosthetic hand that, with the help of artificial intelligence, can act a lot more like a natural one. The key is to have the hand recognize when the user wants to do ...

The best way to improve amputees' control over a bionic hand is to give the hand a mind of its own, a new study argues. A bionic hand that's controlled by an artificial intelligence program, but under ...