The effort to get kids interested in science just got a big helping hand—a cyborg hand, to be precise. The award-winning Mega Cyborg Hand ($39.95), created by educational toymaker Thames & Kosmos, ...

A generation ago, getting a prosthetic limb fitted usually amounted to a having a heavy, nearly useless hunk of plastic and metal tacked onto your body. But bionic hands such as this one illustrate ...

For all of the promises made by Apple and Google, none of their smartwatches will give you superpowers. Strap on MIT’s new wearable, though, and you can suddenly have an extra pinky, a third thumb, or ...

Imagine robotic fingers that can feel vibrations, textures, and temperatures. For those with prosthetic hands, it’s no longer a dream, it’s reality. Find out how one company is disrupting the ...

The BIT-UEC-Hand developed in this study consists of a hand, a controller, an EMG sensor, a battery, and a socket. The hand was developed in a joint research project between the University of ...

Even the most skilled and steady surgeons experience minute, almost imperceptible hand tremors when performing delicate tasks. Normally, these tiny motions are inconsequential, but for doctors ...