Prosthetic hands have long struggled to replicate the dexterity and functionality of natural hands, often limiting users to a single grasp function at a time. This limitation has made everyday tasks, ...

American engineers have developed a prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging or ...

Recent advancements in technology have revolutionized the world of assistive and medical tools, and prosthetic limbs are no exception. We've come a long way from the rigid, purely cosmetic prosthetics ...

In the picture an individual with a limb deficiency wears the system during familiarization. The researchers designed a soft prosthetic hand with two degrees of actuation, enabling it to perform ...

An innovative prosthetic hand can grasp and distinguish between a wide range of objects with near-human precision 1. The human hand’s combination of rigid and soft anatomy allows it to effortlessly ...

Most high school students have never taken a technical entrepreneurship class. Steve Compton wants to change that. After teaching high school chemistry for 30 years, Compton is piloting the first ever ...

A new study could be a game changer for users of prosthetic hands who have long awaited advances in dexterity. Researchers examined if people could precisely control the grip forces applied to two ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) continues its groundbreaking work in mechatronics and neural technologies to innovate prosthetics and mechanical limbs. The latest breakthrough from the Defense ...

A Bristol-based roboticist has developed a robotic prosthetic hand using 3D-printed components that costs as little as £650, which is much cheaper than existing technology. Joel Gibbard first came up ...

How does a robotic arm or a prosthetic hand learn a complex task like grasping and rotating a ball? Researchers address the classic 'nature versus nurture' question. The research demonstrates that the ...

A highly dexterous, human-like robotic hand with fingertip touch sensors can delicately hold eggs, use tweezers to pick up computer chips and crush drink cans. The hand could eventually be used as a ...

The robotic hand can detach from the arm and move independently on its own to grasp objects and carry them back to the arm. Introduction to EPFL's robotic arm and detachable hand. How the robotic hand ...