Prosthetics have come a long way from the wooden pegs and iron hands of the ... who is behind a sophisticated modular prosthetic arm called the Modular Prosthetic Limb, says that from a mechanical ...

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It’s where [Coby Unger] met nine-year-old [Aidan Robinson] and helped him design his very own custom prosthetic arm. There’s a lot of problems with prosthetics for children. They’re very ...

Developed by Japanese robotics company exiii Inc., the HACKberry is a prosthetic arm that can be 3D-printed, and works like a real human arm by detecting when nerve and muscle tissue are stimulated.

Velliste et al. now report that monkeys can perform a continuous feeding task by use of a brain–machine interface in which cortical signals control a human-like prosthetic arm. Two Macaca ...