During a recent event held by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Tech Insider had a chance to check out one of the most advanced robotic prosthetic arms we’ve ever seen.

Even today, custom-built prosthetics cost an arm and a leg, but there’s no reason why they should. Right now, we can scan someone’s arm or leg, import that scan into a 3D-modeling program ...

[Jason Barnes] lost his arm in a work accident, which prevented him from playing the piano the way he used to. The researchers at Georgia Tech worked with him, eventually producing a prosthetic ...

Picking up a cup of coffee, flipping a light switch or grabbing a door handle don't require much apparent thought. But behind ...

The BrainRobotics prosthetic hand is a first in its field ... which enable the hand to process muscle signals from the user’s arm, allowing more accurate control over grips and hand motions.

K.J. Reid was so close to death that two nurses at Springfield Memorial Hospital were assigned to him around the clock.

Velliste et al. now report that monkeys can perform a continuous feeding task by use of a brain–machine interface in which cortical signals control a human-like prosthetic arm. Two Macaca ...