If you wear glasses, you may have realized your visual deficit can also be an unexpected style boon. Thanks to a company combining wearable robotics with stunning (and newly award-winning) design, the ...

A nonconstrained shoulder prosthesis is the preferred treatment for diseases such as primary osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthitis and avascular necrosis, in which the glenohumeral joint is destroyed ...

High-tech prosthetics allow amputees to engage more fully in everyday life, even to compete in sporting events. Researchers have demonstrated how brain activity is used to identify different terrains ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — An electrical engineer is determined to unify neural-prosthesis research by applying graphical state diagrams to bring together the disparate approaches taken by other experimental ...

This winter in Arizona, Chicago Cubs broadcaster Ron Santo took brisk horseback rides several days a week and went back to golfing 18 holes–never mind that he’d lost a second leg to diabetes only a ...

ARLINGTON — Torrae Owen is 10 years old and knows how to build a working prosthetic hand using some fishing line and 3-D printed plastic parts. It’s a family thing. Her dad, Ivan Owen, helped design ...

For all the neural-controlled, bluetooth-enabled and sport-specific prosthetics humanity has designed over the years, one thing remains constant: most of of them are lousy for climbing rock faces.

Baldwin High School senior Creselle Morales and Faith Lennox, a 3rd-grader at Kihei Elementary School, met through their mutual love of science. If you think 3-D printing is just a hobby for ...

When Christy Waters adopted her dog, Zoey, from Zeus’ Rescues in New Orleans, she knew Zoey's medical history. “She was in very bad health,” Waters said. “Zoey had been abused, had a broken jaw, was ...