Engineers from MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed a prosthetic hand that precisely inflates individual fingers to take hold of objects, while also providing the user with tactile ...

Chris Ahern, who lost his foot and much of his leg below the knee after a motorcycle accident in 2006, places the remaining part of the limb into an elaborate, one-of-a-kind machine in a cluttered MIT ...

MIT has created a soft, inflatable robotic hand that it hopes will give amputees back the tactile control that's lost with a traditional prosthetic device. Engineers on the project aim to help more ...

A new surgical technique devised by MIT researchers could allow prosthetic limbs to work much more like natural limbs. With the help of muscle grafts and feedback from existing nerves, amputees would ...

The inflatable prosthetic limb is designed to provide the same flexibility, durability and control as a traditional one – but at a fraction of the cost and weight. Engineers at MIT have developed a ...

Bionic limbs that can be controlled by the wearer's natural electrical signals have been around for a while, but prosthetics that send information the other direction—transmitting sensations to the ...

Contrary to many outsider opinions, a lot of amputees and limb-different people out there are not huge fans of currently available prosthetics, no matter how seemingly advanced they may first appear.

Prostheses are having a renaissance. Amputees with $10,000 or more can strap on a mechanical hand that they can actually control with their thoughts, much like they’re using a biological hand. But the ...

Currently, most powered prosthetic limbs are controlled by electrodes in the user's residual stump. An experimental new MIT system, however, is claimed to work better by replacing those electrodes ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--MIT researchers have developed a new algorithm to help create prosthetic devices that convert brain signals into action in patients who have been paralyzed or had limbs amputated.