Biomedical engineers at Newcastle University are giving new meaning to hand-eye co-ordination by fitting a bionic hand with a camera. Designed to usher in a new generation of smarter prosthetic limbs, ...

Prosthetic limbs have changed very little in the past 100 years, according to doctors familiar with prosthetics. But a new bionic hand developed at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom has the ...

Known as "the real bionic woman," 50-year-old Karin was fitted a few years ago with an advanced robotic limb after losing her right hand in a farming accident A woman from Sweden has become the first ...

STORY: In a Nigerian laboratory, Gift Usen experienced something she’d dreamed of her entire life: the feeling of having two complete hands. Born with her left arm ending at the elbow, she tested a ...

A UK startup called Open Bionics has just unveiled the world's first wireless bionic arm, called Hero — and it's so advanced that the hand can fully detach and amble about on its own, like the Addams ...

A UK startup has unveiled the world’s first wireless bionic arm, capable of working when detached from the wearer. Bristol-based Open Bionics spent four years developing its latest Hero bionic arm, ...

Bionic hand prostheses have been around for a while, but the U.K.s state-funded National Health Service (NHS) wants to make them more readily available to those who need them the most. With that in ...

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A man with an amputated arm has been given a bionic hand in a surgical breakthrough in Sweden. A study published in Science Translational Medicine on July 12 shows how the patient can now control the ...

Brain implant and bionic hand helped patient regain sense of touch. — -- Twelve years after becoming paralyzed in a car accident, Nathan Copeland remembered the moment he was finally able to ...