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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 I pretended like I wasn't," said the 21-year-old Houma, La., resident.

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 ...

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 ...

Lizbeth Uzcategui of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been training with an i-limb quantum prosthesis, which has five fully functional fingers that make it easier for her to use a mouse on her computer, ...

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 ...

FORT LAUDERDALE — 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 can do.