Lexy was a producer and on-air presenter who covered consumer tech, including the latest smartphones, wearables and emerging trends like assistive robotics. She won two Gold Telly Awards for her video ...

Prosthetic limbs have come a really long way from being peg legs, hooks, and whatnot. The most advanced ones right now are often imbued with advanced robotics, which offer far more function and a ...

A virtual forearm can bend in a blink. It can also take its time, easing toward a target as if it is thinking about the move. In a new virtual reality study, both extremes felt wrong. When a ...

After losing her arm in a motorcycle accident, Claudia Mitchell worked with a research team to test a new bionic arm that can feel sensory stimulation Claudia Mitchell had been out of the Marine Corps ...

A typical prosthetic arm still looks essentially the way it has for more than a century, with a simple hook that can open and close to squeeze and hold objects. An artificial arm now in development ...

Jacob George, a biomedical engineering doctoral student at the U, and Gregory Clark, Ph.D., a biomedical engineering associate professor at the U, with the LUKE arm. Keven Walgamott had a good ...

The robotics students began by studying Samantha’s condition and limitations. IMAHelps volunteers in Ecuador provided photos and video of Samantha, along with her measurements. Team members then ...

Some prosthetics require users to flex their muscles to make simple movements. An Atom Limbs prosthesis taps into the signals their brain is sending. Segway Inventor Creates Revolutionary ...

A British man is the owner of perhaps the most convenient smartphone dock in existence. It’s actually a slot embedded in 50-year-old Trevor Prideaux’s prosthetic arm, custom made to fit his Nokia C7 ...

Claudia Mitchell had been out of the Marine Corps just a few months when she hopped on the back of a friend's motorcycle in 2004. He lost control of the bike, and Mitchell ended up losing her kidney, ...