A Styrofoam coffee cup is easy to underestimate. It weighs almost nothing and collapses under the slightest excess pressure.

A prosthetic hand for children that is powered and controlled by the wearer's breathing has been developed by scientists at Oxford University. Researchers say the simple lightweight device is not too ...

Fabrizio wasn't sure what to expect of his newly outfitted prosthetic hand, until he touched one of the researchers who'd given it to him. "When one of the researchers placed the sensor on his own ...

Engineers with the University of Utah are developing prosthetic hands that can more intuitively grasp small objects.

Scientists integrated proximity and pressure sensors into a commercial bionic hand, and then trained an artificial neural network on grasping postures.

Today, for the first time ever, I watched my 6-year-old son use his right hand. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to have no right hand? Seriously. Have you? Think about it for a ...

Researchers in Europe have developed a prosthetic hand that gave an Italian man with a missing limb the ability to feel sensations of warmth and coolness when touching various objects. The new device ...

San Francisco Giants invite Jamie Grohsong to throw ceremonial first pitch at Oracle Park after he learned to play baseball ...