Last year, researchers at MIT announced that they'd created a bionic leg that integrates directly with an amputee's natural tissue, offering greater spatial awareness, faster walking speeds, and more ...

For most of us, they’re a medical marvel, but for amputees or those born without body parts, prosthetics are a true lifeline. Incredibly, the very first prosthetic known to human history dates back ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When Alexis Cholas lost his right arm as a volunteer combat medic near the front lines in eastern Ukraine, his civilian career as a surgeon was over. But thanks to a new bionic ...

It’s the Hero he deserves. For most of his life, Praveen Gowtham avoided prosthetics. The Bronx physicist, who lost part of ...

Patient using bionic hand system to eat a chocolate. This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in brain-machine interfaces. In ...

Bionic arms for kids have a come long way from where they started 10 years ago in Central Florida. They couldn’t hold much. They were costly to make and replace for growing kids. And they didn’t have ...

Karin's life took a dramatic turn when a farming accident claimed her right arm more than 20 years ago. Since then, she has endured excruciating phantom limb pain. "It felt like I constantly had my ...

AFGHAN war hero Ben McBean has been forced to launch a public appeal to buy a new prosthetic arm so he can finally hold his ...

While last year's trial focused on folks with below-the-knee amputations, this one worked with above-the-knee amputees. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...