NEW YORK (WABC) -- Some high school students in Manhattan are using their math lessons to lend a literal helping hand. They've created and built a prosthetic using a 3-D printer. It's not your ...

EDGEWOOD, Ky. (AP) -- An engineering class at Turkey Foot Middle School in northern Kentucky is hoping a new project will benefit a student at the school. Teacher Dwayne Humphrey says his eighth-grade ...

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 ...

There are probably over a million people in the U.S. who could use a prosthetic arm and dearly want one. That includes those who have suffered amputations or accidents and those born with congenital ...

David Brockman, a retired CalFire captain and avid outdoorsman, built a deck in the backyard of his home last year, without the use of his dominant right hand, which he lost in an accident. The ...

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.

While a number of groups are developing thought-controlled prosthetic hands, most of the devices require electrodes or other relatively fiddly electronics to be implanted in the amputee's body. Such ...