Fanconi anemia is a rare inherited condition that can affect the thumbs. Some people with the condition may be born with extra, missing, or misshapen thumbs. While Fanconi anemia does not affect the ...

Although it isn’t yet common to see somebody walking around with extra robotic appendages like Doctor Octopus, that may change soon. Numerous researchers are working on robotic limbs that augment the ...

UCL researchers have created a strange robotic "third thumb" that attaches to the hand and adds a large extra digit on the opposite side of the hand from the thumb. Researchers found that using the ...

How many times have you said to yourself ‘if I only had an extra hand’? Well, it’s increasingly looking like that wish might come true. Scientists and engineers are exploring how extra fingers and ...

A "Third Thumb" -- a robotic, prosthetic extra thumb -- is easy to use and can help folks grab and tote more objects, a new study says. Hundreds of diverse test subjects at a science exhibition were ...

Our opposable thumbs are what make us the dominant primates we are. And if two thumbs helped us climb to the top of the evolutionary ladder, what else would we be able to accomplish with even an extra ...

From the war machines in Edge of Tomorrow to the black market adaptation of Elysium to the classic power loader in Aliens, exoskeletons loom large in cinema. And they’re far from science fiction — ...

Royal College of Art graduate Dani Clode has created what she calls a Third Thumb. And while most prosthetics are meant for medical purposes, that's not what Clode is going for. She doesn't want to ...