Researchers have developed new software that can be integrated with existing hardware to enable people using robotic prosthetics or exoskeletons to walk in a safer, more natural manner on different ...

You can probably complete an amazing number of tasks with your hands without looking at them. But if you put on gloves that muffle your sense of touch, many of those simple tasks become frustrating.

The use of brain computer interface has the potential to improve the daily lives of people with prosthetic limbs, according to research presented this week at the Association of Academic Physiatrists ...

Each year, some 200,000 Americans lose a limb, through accident or disease. Nearly three-quarters of those new amputees have lost a leg. Many choose to wear a prosthesis, an artificial leg. While ...

When Glenn Hollinday had has right leg amputated in 1989, his new prosthetic limb was bulky and heavy -- but at least it got him up and around. Today Hollinday, 59, has two prosthetic limbs that are ...