Researchers at Zhejiang University of Technology have developed a bioinspired perceptual sensor that combines piezoelectric ...

Alex Parra went viral for turning his prosthetic leg into a cat scratching post, giving his feline friend hilariously creative enrichment.

Ben Hogan, a prosthetist, invented “Project Bike Leg” to help amputees in developing nations who lack access to prosthetics.

Ben Hogan’s Project Bike Leg turns discarded bicycle parts into low-cost prosthetics, with free, publicly-available designs ...

“It’s been just a labor of love,” Ben Hogan told “Jesse Weber Live” on Friday.

Sensory feedback is important for amputees to be able to explore and interact with their environment. Now, researchers have developed a device that allows amputees to sense and respond to temperature ...

Advances such as telemedicine and the use of wireless devices in hospitals have become an accepted part of medical technology, but the notion of replacing limbs with computer-powered devices seems ...

In 2018, Johnny Matheny became the first person to take home the world's most advanced Modular Prosthetic Limb—developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory—for a yearlong opportunity to ...

NEWTON, Mass. — She was orphaned during Rwanda’s genocide and lost much of one of her legs to childhood cancer, but Claudine Humure has dreams of giving back to her once war-torn homeland. First, ...

Paralympian Ezra Frech says he chooses to use a prosthetic leg that leaves him “unstable” while competing on Dancing With the Stars. The 21-year-old athlete says that rather than use his “walking leg, ...