A Utah family is hoping their insurance company will reconsider a recent decision that denied their daughter a “life-changing” new prosthetic. Remi Bateman, 9, was born without a hand below the elbow, ...

A 17-year-old in Virginia is making headlines for creating an affordable prosthetic arm that can be controlled by the mind. Benjamin Choi, now a senior at Potomac High School, developed the first ...

Ten years ago, Easton LaChappelle was a teen watching YouTube videos in his Colorado bedroom on how to build robot arms from LEGOs. Today, he's the founder of Unlimited Tomorrow, a company that ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Albert Manero said he was stuck in traffic listening to the radio when he heard an interview with a man who built 3-D-printed mechanical hands. When he returned to his research lab on ...

It is projected that there are more than 57 million amputees worldwide and only about 5 percent of them have access to prosthetic care and technology. Those that do have access to prostheses are often ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (Army News Service, Feb. 1, 2012) -- A robotic arm, dubbed "Luke," after the Jedi with the mechanical hand, served as the centerpiece for a Jan. 31 discussion here regarding ...

Few entrepreneurs can claim as intimate a connection to their products as Jonathan Kuniholm. As an engineer working at the forefront of some of the latest research to improve prosthetic arms, Kuniholm ...

David Gathu, left, and Moses Kiuna are self-taught Kenyan innovators who have built a bio-robotic prosthetic arm out of electronic scrap - Copyright AFP Ed JONES ...

Atom Limbs aims to pioneer prosthetic technology by developing the first mind-controlled prosthetic human arm in the world. Its goal is to help the 50 million people who have lost limbs and change the ...

An inscription on this prosthetic arm reads “CARNES ARTIFICIAL LIMB CO. / KANSAS CITY, MO., U.S.A.” with four patent dates from 1904 to 1922. William T. Carnes was a Pennsylvania machinist who, having ...