You can probably complete an amazing number of tasks with your hands without looking at them. But if you put on gloves that muffle your sense of touch, many of those simple tasks become frustrating.

David Brockman, a retired CalFire captain and avid outdoorsman, built a deck in the backyard of his home last year, without the use of his dominant right hand, which he lost in an accident. The ...

New Delhi: When Ansh Mishra was in school, he spent his birthday money not on gifts, but on building robots. Now 18, the Prayagraj–based engineering student has developed a brain–controlled robotic ...

There are probably over a million people in the U.S. who could use a prosthetic arm and dearly want one. That includes those who have suffered amputations or accidents and those born with congenital ...

For his entire life, Sergio Peralta dreamed about playing catch. When he was born, Peralta said his right hand didn’t fully develop. Instead, he grew tiny fingers at the end of his arm. So he learned ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in prosthetic sensory feedback. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the ...

Fabrizio Fidati, a 57-year-old amputee, uses the MiniTouch device with his prosthetic to accurately sort cubes of different temperatures. EPFL Caillet Amputees’ hopes to experience the feeling of ...