Just a little over a year ago, a 25-year-old woman from Madison had to have her hands and legs amputated after contracting ...

Their bionic finger can detect structures such as the blood vessels, tissues and bones that exist beneath our skin. "We were inspired by human fingers, which have the most sensitive tactile perception ...

As Eric Jones fought off cancer a few years ago, his weakened immune system left him vulnerable to strep pneumonia and sepsis, which developed into the blood-clotting disorder known as Disseminated ...

A Styrofoam coffee cup is easy to underestimate. It weighs almost nothing and collapses under the slightest excess pressure. For most people, picking it up is effortless. For someone using a ...

Scottish scientists have created the world's first powered bionic fingers for partial-hand amputees. Called ProDigits, the prosthesis has a silicone skin and movable thumb that allows amputees the ...

The human fingertip is an exquisitely sensitive instrument for perceiving objects in our environment via the sense of touch. A team of Chinese scientists has mimicked the underlying perceptual ...

A new robotic device could make simple, everyday tasks — such as peeling a banana or unscrewing the cap from a water bottle — even easier. Developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Holding a bottle of water and opening a door at the same time had not been easy for Michael Waldron. That changed in May 2010 when he received a bionic hand. The chief prosthetist at Ability ...

A group of researchers from Wiyu University in China debuted a new device that centers on multiple touches or pokes on different surfaces to create a 3D render of its surface and subsurface. This is ...

What if, instead of using X-rays or ultrasound, we could use touch to image the insides of human bodies and electronic devices? In a study publishing in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science on ...