Custom, robotic prosthesis are on the rise ... and only so many hydraulics fit onto an arm or leg before it becomes a slow, heavy brick – more hindering than helpful. If only we had a few ...

"Smart" prosthetic ... not a robotic control algorithm," said senior researcher Hugh Herr, co-director of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics at MIT. Most arm and leg movement is controlled ...

[Radek] from Poland sent in a neat video of a bionic prosthetic leg he made for one of his patients. Even though [Radek] says it’s a ‘prototype of a prototype,’ we’d have to agree with ...

and one traditionally underserved by prosthetics technology. By late 2009, testing was underway on the PowerFoot BiOM, the first lower-leg system to use robotics to replace muscle and tendon function.

"To make the connection between the residual arm where the magnets were implanted and the robotic hand easier, we made a carbon fiber prosthetic socket containing the electronic system capable of ...

I asked one of the creators of the arms, Professor Masahiko Inami, to tell me more. This is a small copy of this movement. So physical computing to avoid collision. Also, it's very intuitive. It's ...

The company plans to make its tech available first for prosthetic arms, and plans to add support for legs after that ... that is very much in the distant future, however. With Phantom focused ...

During a recent event held by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Tech Insider had a chance to check out one of the most advanced robotic prosthetic arms we’ve ever seen.

Best-selling author Hirotada Ototake, who was born without arms and legs, walked more than 50 meters on Sept. 28 with the aid of robotic legs ... distance using the prosthetic legs equipped ...