Pedicure costs drop 50% overnight. A pair of socks lasts twice as long. But Hugh Herr, the director of the Biomechatronics Group at the MIT Media Lab, goes a step further. “It’s actually unfair,” Herr ...

In the Star Wars movies Doctors and medical droids are able to replace limbs with artificial prosthetics that are as good or even better than the original limb. Which is a good thing because in a ...

The new i-LIMB Pulse from Touch Bionics is the latest in their range constructed with an aluminium chassis, knuckles, and dislocators. The i-LIMB Pulse’s robust design makes it Touch Bionics’ toughest ...

These people have got a leg — or an arm — up on the future. Thanks to the latest advancements in medical science, amputees are becoming part robot, with awe-inspiring artificial limbs that would make ...

We were just talking about the incredible i-Limb hand the other day—a bionic hand controlled by nerve impulses—and here is one of its first videos in motion. We ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Weeks after becoming the first woman nationally to be fitted with an i-limb quantum bionic arm, Lizbeth Uzcategui continues to discover — and surprise herself with — what she ...

Even when Adrian Albrich sits still, you can hear the motors in his hand whirring. Bzzzt. Vrrrt. Zyyt. Little more than a month after doctors outfitted him with a new prosthetic left hand, Albrich ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For years, Laiken Olive pretended. "For most of my life, I ignored the fact that I was disabled. I didn't want to be disabled, so ...

Limb loss can bring the darkest days to the brightest individuals. But Keith Walton, who uses a prosthetic leg, put his best foot forward to help spread a message many need to hear: If he can get ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Weeks after becoming the first woman nationally to be fitted with an i-limb quantum bionic arm, Lizbeth Uzcategui continues to discover - and surprise herself with - what she ...