HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. — Inside a lab at Northern Kentucky University, students and professors from multiple disciplines are working on a project to make life easier — and faster, and less intrusive — ...

A groundbreaking robotic arm developed by the University of Washington's robotics team is offering new hope to amputees and individuals with motor impairments by enabling them to feed themselves. The ...

It is projected that there are more than 57 million amputees worldwide and only about 5 percent of them have access to prosthetic care and technology. Those that do have access to prostheses are often ...

A new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago shows how amputees can learn to control a robotic arm through electrodes implanted in the brain. The research, published in Nature ...

University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers have developed a more accurate, less invasive technology that allows amputees to move a robotic arm using their brain signals instead of their muscles.

Keven Walgamott wasn't sure what to expect when scientists first hooked up what was left of his arm to a computer. Last year - 14 years after he lost his hand and part of his arm in an electrical ...