Kent Carson had a full life -- travel, a fiancee, a job as a branch bank manager. He was so healthy he never missed a day on the job, until the late summer of 2012, when he suddenly began suffering ...

In 2011, Jeremy Schroeder was driving a four-wheeler near Sherwood, Ohio, when he crashed into a stop sign he hadn't seen as the stone path suddenly turned to asphalt. The sign left a deep gash in ...

BOSTON, Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In early September, a young boy named Ma received a brand-new hand — a mini version of the BrainCo Intelligent Bionic Hand. Born with a congenital limb difference ...

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 ...

CHAMPAIGN, IL — More than one and a half million people in the U.S. live with limb loss. The vast majority undergo amputation below the elbow. For one scientist, the quest to bring a lightning-fast ...

Researchers have built a prosthetic hand that, with the help of artificial intelligence, can act a lot more like a natural one. The key is to have the hand recognize when the user wants to do ...

An illustration showing a paralyzed individual with a spinal cord injury, implanted with intracortical electrodes in the brain. This brain-computer interface (BCI) allows the individual to control a ...

BOSTON, Sept. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- At Expo 2025 Osaka in August, beside a carefully arranged art installation of lush bamboo titled "Bamboo Rhythms", Ni used the BrainCo Intelligent Bionic Hand to ...

Engineers at the University of Utah have given a bionic hand a mind of its own. By equipping a commercial prosthetic with pressure and proximity sensors and training an AI neural network on natural ...

Sensors and artificial intelligence help a prosthetic hand act more like a natural one, new research shows. Amputees often feel disconnected from their bionic hands. AI could bridge the gap ...