Your legs may not seem all that smart, but they're pretty good at letting you walk without having to think about what you're doing. That hasn't been the case with artificial limbs, which have long ...

The innovative interface system is designed to seamlessly connect a patient’s nervous system and their upper limb prothesis to restore naturalistic hand and arm function. GRASS LAKE, Mich.--(BUSINESS ...

ROSEMONT, Ill.—In the past 13 years, nearly 2,000 veterans returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with injuries requiring amputations; 14 percent of those injured veterans required upper extremity ...

Reykjavik, 11 April 2016   Össur has today signed an agreement to acquire Touch Bionics Limited, a leading global provider of innovative upper limb prostheses and ...

Researchers unify data from two unique brain-machine interfaces to discover how the brain subconsciously organizes prosthetic ...

LEEDS, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In their centenary year Steeper Group, a world leading manufacturer of prosthetic devices, launch their latest myoelectric system. The full limb build is designed to ...

With a wrench in hand, Andrea Modica makes a final adjustment to the gleaming metallic joint on the prosthetic leg strapped to his left thigh. He stands and walks a few steps along the neon-lit ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Drexel universities say that adding haptics—an artificial sense of touch—to upper limb prostheses reduces the mental effort required to operate the device, bringing ...

Researchers have engineered a bionic arm for patients with upper-limb amputations that allows wearers to think, behave and function like a person without an amputation, according to new findings. The ...

A research team led by Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic, has uncovered ...